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| Saakshar Bharat Mission employees in J&K, Ladakh demand regularization | | Seek LG’s intervention to address long pending issue | | ASIF IQBAL NAIK
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 22: Thousands of employees working under Government of India’s prestigious Saakshar Bharat Mission (SBM) in J&K and Ladakh Union Territories demanded regularization beside release of their pending salaries since last nearly 18 months.
Several employees engaged under Saakshar Bharat Mission urged the government to redress their pending demands adding that the career of 5803 employees including 5675 Preraks, 40 District Coordinators and 88 Block Coordinators are in total jeopardy.
“There is a great confusion among those who were engaged under the scheme in 2011. They have never been given any notice or letter by the authorities that the scheme has been closed or their services had been disengaged,” said the aggrieved employees. Speaking to Early Times, the SBM employees said that instead the government from time to time had given promise about their regularization as well as for continuation of their services under Samagra in J&K. They said that the scheme was started way back in 2009 throughout the country with a big bang by the then Union Government and over 5000 unemployed youth were engaged under the scheme by the Government of J&K for educating the adult, mostly women in the erstwhile J&K state. As a follow up to the scheme in J&K, State Literacy Mission (SLM) was constituted and notified in 2010 to invite applications for the recruitment of Preraks (Panchayat coordinators), Block Coordinators and District Coordinators purely on merit basis at Panchayat, block and district levels.
The appointments were made through proper procedure by the duly constituted committees, viz concerned DDCs, CEOs, DIETs and ZEOs level, on contractual pattern added that employees form last six to seven years are working under the supervision of concerned DIET Principals, ZEOs and Headmasters under the scheme.
After completion of six years of service by getting various extensions from Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), the erstwhile State Government in J&K started a job policy in favour of SBM employees for which communications were made to several quarters vide No Edu/Plan-SE/618/2017-18 dated 5-09-2017 and directors of both the divisions and Joint Director SBM were asked to submit the necessary inputs in the matter for further appropriate action.
Accordingly, the Directors of both divisions of J&K forwarded the same to all Chief Education Officers vide letter no DSEK/PLG/SBM/352/IV dated 8/11/2017 and DSEJ/Gen/49800-09 dated 11-12-2017 for comprehensive report along with the comments, that all the CEOs have furnished the report to the concerned directors and both the directors also submitted the files with the report of CEOs to the Secretary School Education vide No DSEK/Plg/SBM/352/IV dated 12-02-2018 and DSEJ. But the files since then are lying somewhere in Department of School Education and the fate of same is unknown. As per the employees, the Saakshar Bharat Mission has not been granted further extension from March 31, 2018 due to which the future of these employees who have given precious seven years of life to it has turned dark. Regarding the matter, the School Education Department has sent a letter to State Project Director vide No Edu/Plan –SE/618/2017-18Pf dated 8-4-2019 urging him to prepare a detailed proposal for continuation of SBM under Samagra Shiksha, but till date they are left abandoned. “We request LG Manoj Kumar Senha to take this matter with Principal Secretary School education so that the long pending honorarium could get released and future of highly qualified 5500 youths of JK UT get secure” the dejected SBM employees said.
Despite repeated attempts State Project Director Samagra Shiksha could not be reached out for his comment on the submission made by the SBM employees.
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