ReTs demand release of pending SSA salary, regularization

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, July 2: A monthly meeting of All J&K ReT Teachers’ Forum was held here today  under the chairmanship of  District president Lekh Raj Parihar and  State chief coordinator Sukhdev Singh Sumbria .
The meeting,  which   attended by the executive members of the Forum including zonal presidents, highlighted the issue of SSA salary,  still pending for the last 2 to 3 months.  Though 3 months salary was released recently by the Government, the salary arrears of newly regularized ReTs are still pending for a long time due to which  regularized ReTs   are suffering badly, the meet observed and appealed the Education Minister to make provision for the streamline of SSA salary so that these teachers and their families do not suffer any more.
The meet also  demanded   regularization of ReTs who have obtained degrees from UGC recognized Universities, regular as well as through distance mode  and the  ReTs with less enrolment whose schools have not been clubbed due to geographic conditions.
Seeking implementation of the transfer policy in favour of regularized ReT teachers as per  High Court judgement.