Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 26: More than a dozen employees of the School Education Department were taken into preventive custody when they tried to stage a protest outside Civil Secretariat, here today, against the alleged non-seriousness of the State Government to address their demands.
The protesting employees assembled in front of the Civil Secretariat under the banner of Jammu and Kashmir Teachers Forum (JKTF) and started shouting anti-Government slogans in support of their demands, including release of salaries of teachers engaged under various Centrally-sponsored schemes like SSA and RMSA and pay anomaly of Masters.
Police immediately swung into action and detained over a dozen employees, including the chairman of the Forum Abdul Qayoom Wani, who is also president of Employees Joint Action Action Committee.
Earlier, addressing the protesting employees, Wani said that the Government talks of making the Education a primary concern, but has done nothing to address the problems and troubles being faced by the teachers.
He warned to further intensify the agitation and organized a State wide protest on November 16 if pending salary of the teachers under SSA and RMSA is not released by November 15.
Mr Wani also urged the Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed and the Education Minister Naeem Akhtar to personally intervene into the matter and ensure that pending salary of the teachers is released.
Others, who addressed the gathering, included Gh Rasool Bhat and Mohammad Afzal Bhat.
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