Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 21: All J&K ReT Teachers Forum today held massive protest demonstrations at all the district headquarters and locked up their schools in protest against the failure of Education Department to release the salaries of SSA Teachers for several months, their regularization and fulfilling other demands.
The protesting ReT teachers raised slogans in support of their demands, which also included revocation of controversial order of Education Minister for screening all the ReTs/RReTs, lifting of ban on BOSE exam duties for ReTs, release of 1 year MDM dues and implementation of High Court order regarding transfer for regularized ReTs. They threatened to intensify their stir if such orders/remarks are not revoked and their genuine issues are not resolved.
Major protest was held at Udhampur where hundreds of ReT Teachers assembled at CEO office in the shape of rally and held sit-in. The protest was held under the chairmanship of State president Vinod Sharma, State vice president Bhupinder Singh and Distt president Lekh Raj Parihar.
While speaking on the occasion, Mr Sharma lambasted the Education Department for allegedly harassing the ReT community by planning to take screening test of all ReTs. “High Court had asked to take the screening test of only those ReTs who possess fake degrees issued by fake universities but in light of that judgment, Minister is harassing all the ReTs thus disturbing them mentally,” he said and added that the Education Minister was taking such steps only to divert attention from real issues as ReTs under SSA are without salary for last 5 to 6 months, regularization of ReTs and KGBV Teachers is pending for last one and half year and MDM dues are pending for last one year.
At Jammu, provincial president Rajesh Jamwal, senior vice president Younis Rahi and district president Subash Chander led the protest demonstration of hundreds of ReTs at D C office and shouted slogans in support of their demands and showed resentment against the Government.
At Doda, Distt president Sajad Malik led the protest of hundreds of ReTs and threatened to intensify the stir if the order of screening is not revoked immediately and all genuine issues are not resolved.
Gulzabir Daing, Distt president Ramban led the protest demonstration of ReTs while at Poonch, State general secretary, Najam Jafri led the protest.
Protest demonstrations at Kathua, Samba Rajouri, Kishtwar and Reasi were led by Mahesh Kumar and Pankaj Verma, Rinku Sharma, Naresh Sharma and Manzoor Khan, Tahir Mehmood and Balwan Singh, respectively.
Reports from Kashmir said that similar protests by All J&K ReTs Teachers Forum, led by Mohd Maqbool, Farooq Ahmed and Ali Mohd, were held in front of the office of Directorate School Education Kashmir.
Meanwhile, State executive body of the Forum has decided to hold State level protests and gherao the Secretariat on December 7, 2015 at Jammu if their genuine issues are not resolved and controversial order is not revoked with in 15 days.
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