Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 4: Various organizations of teachers have extended their support to the Rehbar-e-Taleem Teachers Forum, which is up in arms against the Education Department’s move of conducting screening of ReTs and verification of their degrees.
To register its protest, the ReT Teachers Forum has given a call for locking up all the schools, run by ReTs, on August 6.
Jammu Kashmir Teachers Forum convened a meeting under the chairmanship of Ganesh Khajuria and strongly condemned the Education Department’s decision on screening test of all the ReTs. “Instead of releasing salary grants under SSA and RMSA on time, the minister is harassing and defaming entire ReT community,” alleged Ganesh Khajuria and added that the ReTs have remained the backbone of Education Department and they played a key role in re-opening of closed schools during turmoil in remote areas thus raising literacy rate by increasing enrollment and minimizing dropout rates.
Urging the Education Minister to review and withdraw the said order on screening at earliest, the Forum also warned an agitation over the issue.
Similarly, a meeting of J & K United School Teachers Association (USTA) was held under the chairmanship of Rajeev Kumar to discuss present education scenario. The meeting strongly criticized the Government decision of conducting screening test of ReT teachers to create wedge among teaching community.
The USTA stressed upon the Government to refrain from its decision of screening and warned an agitation against the same.
Meanwhile, a series of meetings of ReTs were held in different parts of Jammu to make the August 6 protest a grand success.
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