Excelsior Correspondent
DODA, Jan 29: Demanding job policy in their favour, the Saakshar Bharat Mission (SBM) employees took out protest march here today.
Large number of preraks, block co-ordinators and district co-ordinators working under SBM scheme assembled here and raised slogans in favour of their demands. They also took out protest rally.
The protesting employees were demanding clear cut job policy.
While speaking, one of the protestor said that the Mission was launched in the year 2009 by the Prime Minister across the country and it was introduced in J&K in 2011.
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He stated that since their joining in the mission they served in the department by various means like academic support to schools, Aadhar duty, election duty and CAPD duty, but unfortunately the scheme has been stopped in March 2018.
He stated that after completion of 6 years service by getting various extensions from MHRD, J&K Government started a process to frame a job policy in favour of SBM employees, the file of which is pending in the Civil Secretariat for more than one year.
The future of hundreds of SBM employees is at stake after the closure of this scheme, he said, and appealed to the DC Doda to take up the issue with the concerned authorities for immediate redressal so as to provide succor to hundreds of SBM employees.
“If our issue is not redressed in the shortest possible time, we will protest in aggressive manner and for any untoward incident, the Government will be responsible”, the protestors warned.
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