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| Guv's orders on detachments violated, 'influential teachers' retained in DSEK | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 11: In brazen violation of the directives of Governor NN Vohra cancelling attachments of all Government school-teachers, deputed with different schemes, the Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) has retained many of the "influential employees at their favorite postings".
Official documents accessed by the Early Times reveal that DSEK has retained the "influential employees as per their sweet will and wish" at its head office at Samundar Bagh here.
This is despite the fact that most of such employees have been working at this office for over a decade. The official documents reveal that the "influential employees" were tactfully favored by virtue of order titled "Cancellation of attachments in school education department."
The first two paragraphs of the order speak about the cancellation of some of the attachments. "In pursuance to the instructions of the Administrative Department, the teaching staff indicated in the annexure 'A' to this order presently working on attachment basis (or) along with the posts in the Directorate are hereby detached and deemed to have been relieved from the Directorate with immediate effect," reads the order vide number 153 DSEK of 2016 dated 6-2-2016.
By virtue of this order, some of the employees, whose details figure in Annexure A, have been detached. But the concluding paragraph of the same order tactfully speaks about retention of many other "influential employees".
"The officers/officials indicated in annexure B to this orders are retained in view of the paragraph V of the Govt order no 26 Edu of 2016 dated 02/02/2016 to ensure that work in the directorate is not adversely affected," the order reads.
Sources said the orders were drafted "very cleverly" in consultation with a former Minister who allegedly has "some personal grudge with some of the teachers and wanted them alone to be transferred to set personal scores with them."
The annexure B comprises of employees, who as per the department insiders, happen to be "enjoying political patronage." "Most of them have been working in the so called cultural wing which was recently under scanner," the insiders said.
They said one of the teachers falling at serial number one in the list of "influential staffers" of annexure "B", is privy to the "dirty underbelly of the cultural wing."
"This employee had threatened his bosses that he would expose everything if he was transferred to any school and made to work as teacher," the sources said adding this teacher has been working as a clerk in the directorate for the past 12 odd years.
Sources said another teacher mentioned in the annexure B happens to be so influential that the education department sent him on Government expenses for higher studies and specialization in science. "He availed leave for around five years to complete his degree so that on completion of the same he would teach schoolchildren in a better way. But the fact remains that on completion of the course he was never transferred to any school as he wanted to work as Babu in the Directorate," the sources said.
"How can you keep a subject expert as influential clerk in the directorate of education when such talent is needed in the classrooms?" questioned a delegation of teachers.
When contacted a senior official in the DSEK said the staffers retained vide annexure B could not be detached as their duties were "badly needed in the directorate." "Over the years they have gone so well-versed with the working of this particular office that we didn't want to lose these able hands," the official said. He said there was no wrong in retaining Government employees in the same office even if they have spend over a decade in the same chair.
The aggrieved teachers, on the other hand, have been accusing the education department of misusing authority to set political vendetta. "These detachments and transfer melas are nothing but eyewash to favor the influential people," the teachers said even as they appealed Governor NN Vohra to personally look into the matter.
When contacted JK Teachers' Forum President Abdul Qayoom Wani said he was yet to see the orders pertaining to retention of the attached teachers in the directorate but added that "favoritism rules the roost in education department." "Law and Government orders should be equal for all but what happens in reality is that influential people, who happen to be kiths and kins of Ministers and bureaucrats are spared where as non-influential get victimized in the garb of such biased directives issued by the directorate of Education," he said.
The JK Teachers' Forum President told Early Times that the complaints of favoritism and political vendetta would be brought into the notice of the Governor NN Vohra and also the HRD Ministry in the Central Government. "Government orders should be equal for all," he said adding "this favoritism is intolerable."
Earlier his month Director Education Shah Faesal had told reporters that "all the attachments were cancelled and the concerned Teachers, Masters and Lecturers have been posted to different schools." |
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