Plus 2 Lecturers’ Forum demands expediting of ACP, other issues

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan 2: Monthly meeting of All J&K Plus Two Lecturers Forum was held here today under the chairmanship of its President Deepak Sharma through virtual mode to discuss pressing issues and demands pertaining to the cadre.
Deepak Sharma demanded expediting of resolution and sanctioning of Assured Career Progression scheme (ACP) as only 10+2 lecturers , amongst Gazetted cadre of UT of J&K have been deprived of Time Bound Promotion despite repeated requests, petitions and memoranda by the Forum .
Allaying fears and apprehensions of some of the cadre members, Deepak Sharma said that ACP would be sanctioned in favour of all Lecturers irrespective of the mode of entry into Gazetted cadre whether through PSC or DPC out of single Joint seniority as per existing rule position. He appealed whole 10+2 cadre to remain united under one umbrella thereby negating the divisive politics on the basis of PSC versus DPC .
Forum further demanded regularisation of all pending Lecturers, release of promotion list of Principals and additional list of Senior Lecturers as per 1/3rd cadre strength, fixation of induction quota into KAS in favour of Plus Two Lecturers till the Education Administrative Service (EAS) as proposed is constituted from the academicians/Officers drawn exclusively from School Education Department and hoped that other demands like non vacational status to Principals/Head of Schools, restoration of 40% college quota, and regularisation of Physical Education lecturers and removal of their pay anomaly , provision of earned leave in favour of all teaching cadres of SED and charge allowance in respect of all placements including incharge Lecturers will also be considered on priority.
Proceedings of the meeting were conducted by General Secretary RS Salathia and technical coordination was done by District President Jammu, Vijay Verma.
Those who participated in the meeting, included Charan Dass, N S Jamwal, Anil Sharma, , R S Salathia, Sanjay Bhagat, Ashok Sharma, Fazal Hussain, Jatinder Sethi, Imtiaz Qazmi, Dr Anis, AR Giri, Anwar Khan, Manoj Anand, Ajay Sehgal, Vijay Verma, Mulkh Raj, and others.