Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 17: A meeting of J & K United School Teachers Association (USTA) was held here today under the chairmanship of Hari Singh, provincial president.
Expressing serious concern over inordinate delay in release of salary of teachers working under various schemes, the meet also highlighted some other demands of the teaching community.
USTA said that Masters and Lecturers repatriated and made surplus by the authorities were not being paid their salary for no fault of theirs. The problem has taken such an acute situation that many of the teachers under these schemes have not been paid salaries for the last 8-14 months, USTA said and demanded immediate release of all the grants as well as matching grants under head 2071 so as to enable DDOs to draw pending salaries.
Those who attended the meeting, included Razib Kumar, Zulfakar Ali Malik, Shashi Pal Singh, Raj Kumar, Chamail Singh, Shanti Saroop, Kishori Lal and Darshan Lal.
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