Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 15: Newly recruited 10+ 2 lecturers said that Government’s failure to implement the Cabinet decision that exempts them from new job policy has let the teachers down.
They alleged that the Government has taken them for a ride on the implementation of a cabinet decision that allowed withdrawing full salary instead of consolidated Rs 15000 for the first years of their services.
The lecturers said in 2015, the cabinet decided that the newly recruited 10+2 lecturers would be entitled to full salary along with all the allowances but Government’s reluctance to implement the orders has badly denting their psyche. “The Government’s indecision has left us clueless. We are unable to trace reasons behind withholding the orders. Besides, it is badly affecting our psyche as we fail to feed our families with the meager salaries. Government is playing games with us,” Haroon Mohidin, a lecturer said, adding the Government has deceived them with false promises.
On October 2017, the Minister for Education, Syed Muhammad Altaf Bukhari, during an inaugural ceremony of a function at Government Girls’ Higher Secondary school Kothi Bagh, announced that the newly recruited lecturers would draw full salary. “Authorities are giving lame reasons for not implementing the order. They are saying that formal orders are withheld as the GAD is questioning the feasibility of the decision. How can Government announce anything publicly without taking into account its feasibility?” a lecturer asked.
Pertinently, on 30th May 2015, the Cabinet decided in favor of the lecturers. “The Cabinet discussed the appointments at gazetted levels made in the school education/ higher education departments in terms of SRO 202 of 2015 dated 30-06-2015 read with the government order no. 1377-GAD of 2015 dated 15-10-2015 and decided that full salary along with allowances shall be payable to these appointees in relaxation of rule 9 and 10 of SRO 202 with immediate effect,” the order reads.
The lecturers lamented that the for last nine months the authorities have failed to release their salaries and that was adding to their woes, “On one hand government has announced the regularization of over 60, 000 casual laborers but on the other hand they are not releasing our basic salaries. We are not against the regularization but we want government to first fulfill the pending promises,” Imtiaz Ahmad, a teacher said.
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