Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 30: Blaming that the understaffing in the Education Department has posed a serious threat to quality education and the future of students was at stake due to non-seriousness of the Government, the Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) and J&K Teachers Forum said it has marred the quality education in the State.
“There are more than 19 thousand posts lying vacant in the Education Department,” they said.
EJAC President Abdul Qayoom Wani said that despite repeated meetings and requests to Chief Minister, Omar Abdulla, Deputy Chief Minister, State Chief Secretary and Secretary Education Department to fill the vacant posts nothing has been done so far.
Giving details about the vacancies in the department, he said 140 Higher Secondary Schools are headless, 200 high schools without head masters, 200 posts of lecturers are vacant in higher secondary schools in different subjects from departmental quota and over 2,000 from open, 50 zones are without ZEOs. “Similarly thousands of master grade posts are vacant as a result schools are mostly understaffed,” Wani said.
He said the State Board of School Education is headless when the exams are at hand. The Board has 17 Deputy Secretaries and many Joint Secretaries posts are vacant which has badly affected the functioning of Board and the Stake holders,” he added.
“Many posts in different subjects of lecturers have not been filled despite completion of all formalities. Not only this Headmasters, ZEO’s and Lecturers who were left out in their regularization are suffering after retirement without any benefit of regularization,” he said.
Wani urged the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister, Chief Secretary and Secretary Education to take immediate steps to fill the vacancies, so that students don’t suffer.
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