Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 13: Jammu Kashmir Teachers’ Joint Action Committee (JKTJAC) held a special meeting at Ramnagar (Udhampur) . The meeting was organised by the teachers of Tehsil Ramnagar under the leadership of Tehsil President Amit Sharma, Tehsil Vice President Sahil Sambyal , Zonal President Kulwanta Sham Singh and Zonal President Ramnagar Maan Chand . On the occasion Vinod Sharma UT President JKTJAC was the chief guest and special invitee .
While speaking on the occasion Mr Vinod Sharma demanded Old Pension scheme for the NPS employees of J&K UT as NPS scheme is proving anti employees’ scheme as their post retirement life is in dark because of meager Pension. He urged the LG administration to implement old Pension Scheme at the earliest for the welfare of the employees and their families.
Highlighting the genuine issues of the teaching fraternity he sought the attention of the government for the resolution of the same. He demanded the provision of comprehensive transfer policy in favour of teachers appointed under ReT scheme who have been working in the same schools for last more than 20 years and suffering badly due to stagnation at one place. He demanded the incentives for those teachers who serve in far flung areas instead for those who stick in cities .
Seeking intervention of Director School Education Jammu towards the process of rationalizing the teaching staff wherein Principals are filling Posts in their own staff crowded schools and not considering the shortage of staff in under staff Primary and middle schools he demanded review of said process. Other demands raised in the meeting were:
Allocation of substantive posts to the teachers Grade II as per their seniority ,Consideration of mutual transfer cases of 3rd teachers, ReTs appointed under Order No. 635 , ReTs appointed under clear vacancies like that of Teachers Grade II/III;Filling Posts of ZEOs/Principals/Headmasters in headless zones/schools of the UT; DPC of teachers to masters as same hasn’t been done since 2014 thereby leading stagnation, Regularisation of ReTs who have completed 5 years ReT period and conversion of RRETs to Teachers Grade II/III, Conversion of headteachers posts into non plan posts of masters to resolve the salary issue of the masters, Provision of release of more than two years arrears of Teachers/ masters as same couldn’t be released last year, and sanctioning of posts (Headmasters ) and other staff in hanging high schools upgraded under RAMSA during 2014 and onwards.
Others who also spoke on the occasion were: Sham Parkash UT Chief advisor, Ashok Seth Provincial Vice President, Ravinder Singh Rathore District General Secretary, Bhushan Khajuria District Chief Spokesman, Shamsher Singh District Finance Secretary, Gopal Sharma, Sham Singh, Ankush Sharma, Pankaj Singh, and Sabar Bandey, Romesh Goswami, Sudesh Kumar, Rajeev Sharma, Raj Kumar, Surinder Singh, Yudhvir, Manoj Kumar, Suneel Baryal, Parveen Singh, Tirth Ram, Chain Singh, Sandeep Singh, Makhan, Singh, Ravi Kumar, Bodh Raj, Ravinder Singh, Parshotam Singh, Viky Sharma, Rekha Devi, Bakeelan Devi, Romesh Kumar. |
