Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Sept 1: Monthly meeting was organised by Jammu Kashmir Teachers’ Joint Action Committee (JKTJAC), here today under the leadership of UT President Vinod Sharma and District President Lekh Raj Parihar.
While speaking on the occasion, Vinod Sharma highlighted the burning issues of the teaching fraternity and appealed the administration to resolve them for the welfare of thousands of these teachers. Highlighting the burning issue of Old Pension Scheme, Sharma said that JKTJAC had always been demanding scraping of NPS and implementation of Old Pension Scheme. He outrightly rejected UPS given by the Government.
Highlighting the issue of comprehensive transfer policy in favour of teachers appointed under ReT scheme, Vinod Sharma said that these teachers have been working in the same schools for last more than 20 years and many of them including females are suffering badly.
Other demands highlighted by the UT President were, regularisation of ReTs who have completed 5 years ReT period; conversion of RRETs to Teachers Grade II/ III; benefit of Cash in Lieu in favour of teaching fraternity; conversion of headteachers posts into non plan posts of Masters; one more DPC of Teachers to Masters; release of time barred arrears of Teachers; raising Grade of Teachers at par with their counter parts in other UTs; earned leave in favour of teachers engaged during summer/ winter vacation for summer/ winter camps and for other duties.
Speaking on the occasion, Lekh Raj Parihar urged the Chief Education Officer Udhampur to intervene in the matter of completion of service records of the teachers in many zones of the district besides release of dues of the teachers which is a matter of great concern.
Others who also spoke in the meeting, included Sham Sharma, Sukesh Khajuria, Ashok Seth, Pritam Goswami, Ravinder Singh Rathore, Shamsher Singh, Vijay Sadhotra, Sandeep Sharma, Rekha Thakur, Romesh Chander Goswami, Amit Gupta, Sham Singh, Puma Chand, Balbir Singh, Som Raj, Gopal Sharma, Uttam Singh, Sahil Sambyal, Sandeep Sharma, Yudhvir Singh, Sudesh Kumar, Ravinder Atri, Pardeep Kumar, Sunil Verma, Ankush Sharma, Amar Dev Singh, Bashir Ahmed and others.
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