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| Harsh alleges total breakdown of Education edifice in State | | Lathicharge on ReTs, EVs condemned | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 28: Harsh Dev Singh NPP MLA and its chairman today strongly condemned the state govt. for unprovoked and unjustified Police action on the peacefully demonstrating ReTs and EVs in Jammu.
He regretted that ReTs and EVs who had been genuinely voicing their concern over the Govt. apathy and indifference towards their demands were brutally assaulted by Police and forcibly lifted from the venue of their hunger strike.
Terming the Police action as highly undemocratic and draconian act, Singh called for enquiry and appropriate action against the delinquent police officers.
Reminding the Govt. of its assurance given in the Budget Session of Assembly for enhancement of honorarium of ReTs from Rs. 1500 to Rs. 3000, he sought early issuance of orders which had been inordinately and inexplicably delayed. He further sought implementation of the order No. 115 Edu. of 2008 for inclusion of five years service of ReTs for pensionary benefits. Expressing grave concern over the total breakdown of educational set up in the state, he said that educational activity had become the major causality of bureaucratic red tape and discriminatory policies of state Govt. resulting in collapse of state as well as centrally sponsored schemes in education sector.
He said that the govt. had itself admitted in the meeting of Project Appraisal Board (PAB) held in New-Delhi in June 2011 that 13020 posts of teachers were vacant at the elementary level itself with 8104 vacancies in Upper Primary schools and 4916 vacancies in Primary schools. He said apart from these more than 13000 vacancies of Masters, Head Masters and Lecturers were available at Secondary level including High and Higher secondary schools thus taking the total no. of vacancies to around 27,000. He said the vacancies included around 5000 posts of Masters sanctioned for the state under RMSA during the last three years none of which had been filled up.
Singh strongly condemned the failure of the govt. to create posts for various High and Higher Secondary Schools created and up-graded after the year 2008-09, thus adversely affecting not only the pass percentage of the said schools but also jeopardizing the careers of students who were made to pursue the courses without formal teaching guides. He said that the cabinet decision taken in July 2010 for filling up the vacant posts of teachers in remote and bad pocket areas on ReT pattern had neither been honoured nor had any step been initiated in this regard. He said there were protests and demonstrations in various far flung and remote areas against staff shortage, against defunct and non-functional schools and against govt. negligence in implementation of various Educational schemes. |
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