Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 5: A meeting of provincial committee of J&K United School Teachers Association (USTA) was held through telecommunication under the chairmanship of Rajeev Kumar, its President, to discuss the present education scenario.
The meeting in one voice strongly criticised the present UT Government for making transfers in the Education Department in pick and choose manner violating transfer policy. “It is the matter of great concern that unsuitable orders of transfer of Lecturers and Masters who are on medical grounds have not been modified even after five months whereas transfers of blue-eyed boys of administration are being made violating all norms, moreover large number of unprivileged Teachers, Masters and Lecturers who have completed their stay for three to six years in far flung areas as well as out of their districts have not been transferred till date even after repeated requests,” said the participants.
The meeting showed its strong resentment over not releasing the pending salary of Masters working as Head Teachers for the month of January- February 2018 and their pending arrears of DA and 7th Pay Commission. “USTA takes strong exception for not adjusting left out newly promoted Lecturers in various subjects and demands the regularisation of all incharge Lecturers, Headmasters, ZEOs, Principals and others whose files are pending in the Human Resource Management Cell in the civil secretariat, said the meet and strongly demanded filling up all vacant posts of Masters, Headmasters, Lecturers and others through DPC at an earliest.
USTA also demanded Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) to all Teachers, Masters and Lecturers working as frontline workers in COVID-19 and to make proper entries in their service book records who performed their duties in vacations. The meet appealed to the Principal Secretary, School Education to concede the demands at an earliest otherwise USTA would be compelled to resort to agitation in near future.
Those who took part in the meeting, included Hari Singh, Yunus Rahi, Pardeep Singh, Kanta Devi, Roop Chand, Bashir Hussain, Raj Kumar, Sirajuddin, Anju Saini, Angad Singh, Ganesh Datt, Sunil Thapa, Zulifkar, Sandesh Kumar, Balwant Singh, Farooq Ahmed and others.
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