Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 23: Jammu and Kashmir Teachers Forum convened a mega convention at Shopian, which was presided over by Abdul Qayoom Wani along with several central leaders.
The State co-coordinator EJAC, Mohammad Muzaffar Ganie, State spokesman Teachers Forum, Mohammad Ishaq Ganaie, provincial vice president, Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, district president, Nazir Ahmad and other leaders addressed the convention. They highlighted the demands of teachers and stressed upon the fraternity that it was their primary duty to strengthen the Teachers Forum and EJAC for upholding the dignity and honour of the employees.
Qayoom Wani expressed deep concern that thousands of teachers were being kept away from schools in the name of trainings organized and conducted by NGOs and he termed it as a crude joke with students. He said the majority of students in Government schools were from poor families and teachers and Government should have a concern regarding their academic career. “State Government has handed over the department to NGOs and students get debarred from education as thousands of teachers are kept busy with useless and unwanted trainings,” he said.
Mr Wani suggested that for the improvement in education, teachers need to be encouraged and empowered. However, he alleged, some politicians and bureaucrats are hell bent to destroy the education system and frivolous allegations are leveled against teachers. He urged the State Government to impose ban on NGOs from entering and providing training to teachers in schools forthwith so that precious time of students is not wasted.
QayoomWani urged the Chief Minister to resolve the pending issues of teachers, especially regularization of all temporary, Contractual, Adhoc, KGBV, SBM, Contingent paid and school cooks. He also demanded removal of Pay anomaly in clerical cadre, regularization of ReTs having completed 5 years service with degrees through distance mode, transfer policy and inclusion of 15 years rendered service to migrate substitute teachers, implementation of minimum wages act on contingent paid employees, stop posting of KAS officers as Joint Directors, etc.
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