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| 'Did you ask me before getting pregnant?' | | ZEO brings shame to teaching community | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 27: An uncouth Zonal Education Officer in Kashmir Valley has crossed all limits of indecency by harassing female teachers and asking them bizarre questions.
The complaints had been mounting from some time against this erring ZEO who is holding two zones simultaneously in central Kashmir's Ganderbal as well as in Srinagar.
The ZEO is denying medical leave to pregnant teachers. "A pregnant teacher applied for maternity leave recently as she was suffering from complicated pregnancy. This pathetic ZEO outrightly rejected her leave without even caring for her condition," says another official of the Education department.
He added that there are reports that the ZEO has even ridiculed some pregnant female teachers by asking them whether they had asked him before getting pregnant.
"It is tantamount to throwing rules to the wind as the government has already directed that the additional charge syndrome must end. However, for this ZEO rules seem have to been bent. This is clear violation of the rules," sources told Early Times.
This ZEO is even dictating terms to his senior officers. "The reason is simple. He boasts that Director School Education, Kashmir is very close to him. Therefore, he enjoys complete freedom without even caring for the rules formulated by the government," says the official.
He said the ZEO even rejects the time-bound promotions of hundreds of teachers working in his zone asking them to get their qualification certificates verified first. The teachers are slamming such a diktat, stating that the ZEO is virtually asking them to move from pillar to post to re-verify their certificates and leave the students at God's mercy.
"When we were appointed, our certificates were duly verified and then only our first salaries were disbursed. What a pathetic person is this ZEO that when no other zone is asking its teachers to re-verify their certificates, he is making a bizarre and uncalled for diktat," says one of the teachers posted in Ganderbal and waiting for his time-bound promotion.
Also, there are reports that teachers in unison have several times asked the concerned authorities to act against the ZEO, but to no avail. |
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