Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 24: A meeting of School Education Employees Coordination Committee (SEECC) was held here today under the chairman of president EJAC and chairman SEECC, Abdul Qayoom Wani, for discussing the burning issues of School Education employees, particularly teaching fraternity.
The meet expressed serious concern over examination drama, alleged humiliation to teachers and ReTs with distance mode certificates, induction of Bureaucracy at Directorate at Joint Director level, ban on tuition, delay in releasing salary of SSA, RMSA, NPS, SBM teachers and delay in the regularization of ReTs, KGBVs, etc.
In the meeting, the leaders alleged that the higher ups of Education Department want to divert the attention of teaching community and common people from the core issues. “Instead of working for the improvement of department, malafied circulars are being issued to tarnish the image of teaching community in general and ReTs in particular by creating examination drama and putting ReTs and the teachers with distance mode in mental trauma,” they alleged.
A Q Wani warned the bureaucrats to desist from issuing malafied statements against unionism or face brunt of five lakh employees of the State.
In the meeting, all leaders appealed the employees of Education Department in general and teaching community in particular to make the protest demonstration on 30th January at Sher-e-Kashmir Park and in front of Governor House in Jammu a big success.
In a separate meeting of SEECC Jammu, under the chairmanship of Narinder Singh Jamwal and Ganesh Khajuria, the alleged vindictive attitude of the education authorities towards teaching fraternity was strongly condemned. The meet also appealed to all the employees to make January 30 protest a grand success by ensuring their participation.
Meanwhile, a delegate session of JKTF under the president ship of Gh Rasool Bhat, vice chairman, was held at Srinagar today in which central, provincial, district and zonal cadre leaders participated.
The speakers expressed their dismay over the failure of the Department of Education to address the genuine issues of teaching community on the one hand and creating chaos and confusion on the other hand. The participants unanimously passed a resolution with one voice in support of protest call on 30th January.