Teachers Joint Action Committee raises demands

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, Nov 7: A meeting of Jammu Kashmir Teachers Joint Action Committee (JKTJAC) was today held here under the chairmanship of its president, Vinod Sharma.
The meeting was attended by executive members of JKTJAC.
Speaking in the meeting Vinod Sharma appealed to the Principal Secretary School Education to resolve long pending genuine issues of teachers including comprehensive transfer policy in favour of teachers appointed under ReT scheme who have been working in the same schools for the last more than 20 years.
He also demanded inclusion of five year service of ReT teachers for seniority benefits, conversion of Head Teachers (SSA) posts to non-plan posts of masters for the resolution of their salary issue, DPC of teachers and revision of grade of teachers equal to their counterparts in other Union Territories.
Sharma appealed DSEJ/ DSEK to regularize the left out ReTs whose files are lying for a long time and also sought the conversion of left out RReTs to Teachers Grade II/III so that they may get their salary.
Implementation of old pension scheme in favour of NPS employees of J&K was other demanded in the meeting.
Those who spoke on the occasion were Sukhdev Singh Sumbria, Sham Sharma, Sukesh Khajuria, Rekha Thakur, Ravinder Singh Rathore, Anil Sharma, Vipen Raina, Sham Singh, Som Raj, Jai Parkash, Sandeep Sharma, Rakesh Singh, Ranjit Singh, Pankaj Thakur, Ajit Singh, Madan Lal, Puma Chand, Suresh Sharma, Shamsher Singh, Binder Kumar, Shamsher Manhas, Parshant Sharma, Vijay Sadotra, Romesh Goswami, Raj Pathania, Ravi Kant, Amardev Singh, Dharuv Singh, Rajinder Singh, Sudesh Kumar and others.