Excelsior Correspondent
-Excelsior/Rakesh
JAMMU, Feb 8: Expressing the apprehensions that the surplus Masters, who were awaiting their posting after repatriation to Jammu after serving complete tenure in other districts, may be adjusted again in remote areas, Jammu Kashmir Teachers Forum has threatened stir if justice is denied to these Masters.
“The recent Government order for adjustment of all surplus Masters within two days, has created a fear psychosis and distress among these Masters, who were worst suffers of violation of transfer norms in the School Education Department,” said Ganesh Khajuria, State general secretary of the Forum, while addressing a press conference, here today.
He lamented that instead of suitably adjusting the repatriated Masters, they were kept as surplus in the office of respective CEOs and now the Government was making them scapegoats for ill-deeds of those who were are the helm of affairs.
Pertinent to mention here that the Government on Friday purportedly asked the Director School Education Jammu and all the CEOs for adjusting the surplus Masters of Jammu, Samba and Kathua against the available vacancies in their respective district.
Mr Khajuria urged the Government to review the hurriedly issued order of adjustment and consider it sympathetically on humanitarian and moral grounds so that justice could be done to all. At the same time, he also warned stir if the justice is denied. ” If justice is not done within two days, the Forum will have no option other than to launch next course of action in best interest of the community,” Ganesh Khajuria said.
The JKTA leader demanded that the Masters, who are residents of other districts but adjusted in Jammu, should be sent back to their home district as they were rendering the locals surplus here. He also stressed upon the Education authorities to immediately issue the adjustment orders of promoted Lecturers of different streams so that the vacancies thus arising may be utilized for adjustment of surplus Masters.
Rajinder Gupta, Gopal Singh, Soorat Singh Toofani and others were also present in the press conference.
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