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| Omar's political salve backfires! | | SSRB recruited teachers up in arms, resist 5 year service benefit to Rehber-e-Taleem | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 22: Teachers who have been appointed through Service Selection Recruitment Board (SSRB) are up in arms against the decision of state government to include 5 years of service in the record books of the teachers engaged under Rehbar-e-Taleem scheme (ReT).
The decision has taken these teachers by surprise and they have begun mulling the option of approaching court of law as and when School Education department issues formal orders of the proposal approved by the Cabinet recently. These teachers are worried that if the government includes 5 years of the Rehbar-e-Taleem in the service records, their seniority would get jeopardised and hamper their promotion benefits.
The impact of inclusion would be disastrous for general line teachers whose entry into service was possible only after they passed stiff test of Jammu and Kashmir Service Selection Recruitment Board (SSRB). These teachers have been pleading with the state government to either create a new cadre for ReTs or extend this 5 year inclusion in the services of ReTs for merely retirement benefits.
Another set of opinion is that ReTs should be included in the places at various levels of the seniority on the basis of their qualification. They maintain that at many places, Rehbar-e-Taleem teachers have been appointed on the basic eligibility condition of 12th pass but the appointed teachers do not have the proficiency to provide quality modern education to the students.
They further say that a number of this ReTs had been working at various ordinary positions before being appointed teachers under this scheme. How could a higher secondary pass teacher be at the same position where a highly qualified one has been placed, is what these teachers have been asking. They further assert that if the state government goes ahead with what it has passed in the state cabinet without heeding to our plea, we would be left with no option but to approach court of law.
What has seemingly kept the issue from boiling into full-scale war between ReTs and General Line teacher is that school education department, which is headed by Deputy Chief Minister and School Education Minister Tara Chand has seemingly decided to go slow on issuing a formal order for including first 5 years of service of those teachers engaged under Rehber-e-Taleem scheme.
If the sources are to be believed, the delay has more political overtones and nothing do with department's concern over the objections being raised by general line teachers appointed to the service through Service Selection Recruitment Board (SSRB). A peeved Congress which is making all possible efforts to reach out to PDP does not want to leave any space for National Conference (NC) to bounce back.
Sources disclosed that Congress leadership has issued directions to its ministers not to allow the NC-led state government to take major decisions which have political reasons behind. Rehber-e-Taleem five year regularization order is set to benefit more than 55, 000 youngsters across the length and breadth of Jammu and Kashmir. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's cabinet had recently assented to the proposal for framing transfer policy as well as including first 5 years after appointment of Rehber-e-Taleem teachers in their service records.
However, Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand's office is yet to issue a formal order. The two coalition partners are seemingly squabbling over the issue little realizing the fact that general line teachers who were appointed to the service by Service Selection Recruitment Board (SSRB) are up in arms against this decision.
The scheme was launched in April 28, 2004 with an intention to lower down the rate of unemployment in the state for which only very little conditions and eligibility were framed that a candidate should be 12th pass, above 18 years of age and should be from the village or identified area of the village for which the post of Rehbar-e-Taleem would have been notified. |
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