Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Nov 3: A monthly meeting of J&K ReT Teachers’ Forum was held here today under the presidium of State President Vinod Sharma, State Chief Coordinator Sukhdev Singh Sumbria and District President Lekh Raj Parihar.
The meeting was attended by a large number of executive members from all the eleven zones of the district. While speaking on the occasion, Vinod Sharma highlighted the issue of release of salary of recently regularized ReTs and un-regularized ReTs of the State as these teachers are without salary for last 8 months.
He urged the Finance Department and the Education Department to come in the rescue of these teachers and bring them out of financial crunch. He also demanded the release of salary of the NPS teachers who are without salary for the last 3 to 4 months and suffering badly.
Sukhdev Singh Sumbria, while speaking, demanded the conversion of newly regularized ReTs to Teachers Grade II and Teachers Grade III and regularization of left out ReTs.
Lekh Raj Parihar, while speaking on the occasion, appealed the Director School Education Jammu to convert left out graduates to teachers Grade II who have degrees from outside State recognized universities and those against whom adverse CID reports are received due to minor FIRs . He also appealed CEO Udhampur to release MDM grant as teachers have been managing the same from their own pockets.
Others who also spoke on the occasion, included Sham Sharma, Pritam Goswami , Sandeep Sharma, Jagdish Chander Sharma , Sushil Singh, Ajaz Wani, Vipin Sharma, Swaran Singh, Dhruv Singh, Amit Gupta, Rakesh singh, Suresh Sharma, Prashant Sharma and Som Raj.