Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 21: Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Jayesh Gupta today appealed the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to ensure that Rehbar-e Khel (ReK) teachers in Jammu and Kashmir are paid a respectable salary.
Addressed a press conference here today, Jayesh Gupta said that highly qualified ReK teachers which are serving the J&K Youth Services and Sports Department for last several years in the hope of regularization, are being paid only a meager sum of Rs 6000 per month and that too they started getting after recent 50% hike approved by the State Administrative Council, as earlier they were getting only Rs 4000 per month.
Gupta said in the present scenario, one cannot think of running a house even with Rs 20,000, then how these ReK teachers are surviving with this meager amount is difficult to understand. He said it is disheartening for these employees that their counterparts in Union Territory of Ladakh are getting Rs 18000 per month, which is almost 3 times what they are getting here though the job profile is same.
He lambasted the J&K administration for this discrimination. Acknowledging that the Administrative Council of J&K led by LG Manoj Sinha recently approved a hike of 50% in salary of ReK teachers, Jayesh said this hike should be at least 150% so that they didn’t feel dejected. He regretted that the salary of ReK teachers in J&K is almost one-third of even people who are doing unskilled jobs.
The AAP leader sought intervention of LG Manoj Sinha and requested him to ensure that ReK teachers in J&K are paid equally what their counterparts are being paid in the UT of Ladakh.
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