Jammu, Sept 29: The chain hunger strike organized by the Jammu Kashmir Teachers Forum entered its fourth day with fresh batch sitting on hunger strike under the leadership of Joginder Singh vice president Jammu alongwith Subash Chander vice president zone Bhalwal, Vinod Kumar Secretary tehsil Jammu and Subash Sharma joint secretary Jammu Zone in front of the directorate of school Education Jammu. The teachers present at the venue of hunger strike expressed strong resentment against the apathetic and adamant attitude of the director school education which has brought the working of Directorate at standstill which is causing so many hardships to the aggrieved teachers.
The masters /lectures from different districts affected by the recent large scale transfers made by the DSEJ in violation of existing norms and adopting pick and choose policy to appease their nears and dears are running from pillar to post to get justice. But the education authorities have maintained a criminal silence on the grievances of the teaching community which shows the height of insensitiveness on the part of govt.
While addressing the gathering the forum leaders warned the govt. to desist from anti-teachers policies and demanded to immediately issue the modification orders to those who are badly affected.
The leaders also stressed upon the education authorities to immediately release the master grade list whose DPC was held in Feb 2014. The promotee masters rendered junior to their counterparts in Kashmir division, hampering the promotion prospects to the higher grades.
Prominent who participated in the demonstration included Gopal Singh, Inderjit Singh, Naresh Sharma, S. Jatinder Singh Zonal President Miran Sahib, R.D. Kaith, Darshan Kumar, S. Harbans Singh, Sanjay Kumar Rakesh Bhagat, Anil Mahajan, Bachan Lal, Kusam Bala, Savita Gupta, Reva Ram, Anita Gupta, P.D. Singh, Sushama Devi, Dil Mohd., Sardar Singh, Vinod Kumar and many others. |
