ReT Forum holds monthly meeting, raises issues

ReTs raising slogans in support of their demands during monthly meeting of the Forum on Sunday.
ReTs raising slogans in support of their demands during monthly meeting of the Forum on Sunday.

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, Aug 7: Monthly meeting of All J&K ReT Teachers’ Forum was held here today under the chairmanship of state president Vinod Sharma and District president Lekh Raj Parihar.
The meeting was attended by a large number of delegates from of all the eleven zones of District.
While speaking on occasion, Vinod Sharma appealed Director School Education Jammu  to issue the regularization orders of ReTs whose objections have been cleared and the files are in the Directorate for a long time. He also appealed her to regularize the ReTs with distance mode degrees of all UGC recognized Universities  and those having less enrolment.
Mr Sharma  also raised the issue of streamlining of SSA salary which is still pending for the last 3 to 4 months and the family members of these teachers are living in miserable condition as they are unable to provide proper food and clothing to their children and medicines to their ailing parents.  He appealed the Government to release the pending SSA salary and arrears of these teachers at the earliest. He also demanded transfer policy for regularized ReTs and benefit of SRO 43 in favour of ReTs.
While speaking on the occasion, District president Lekh Raj Parihar appealed Chief Education Officer Udhampur to release Mid Day Meal dues, which  are pending for last many months and teachers are managing the same from their own pockets.
Others, who also spoke on the occasion were Sukhdev Singh Sumbria,  Sham Sharma ,Ravinder Singh,  Chain Singh,  Sandeep Sharma, Sushil Singh, Viney Sharma, Anil Sharma, Bharat Bhushan Singh, Jai Parkash, Suresh Sharma and  Pawan Sharma.