Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 30: A meeting of J&K United School Teachers’ Association (USTA), Jammu Province, was held today under the chairmanship of its president, Hari Singh, here at Green Belt Park, to focus the long pending demands of teaching community.
While addressing the meeting, Hari Singh lambasted the State Government for its apathetic and callous attitude towards the long pending demands of the teaching community.
“It is very unfortunate and disturbing that that thousands of teachers working in various schools have not been paid salary and other dues for last six to 14 months and on the top of that regularization of ReT teachers has been withheld deliberately by the Government for about last one year on the pretext of their degree verification”, Singh said.
He also criticized the Government for engaging a large number of teachers in non-academic duties, not conducting DPC to fill a large number of vacant posts of Masters, Head Masters and Lecturers, imposing mid-day meal on teachers without paying cooking and carriage charges for quite long time and not making a transparent transfer policy.
“This prevailing mess in Education Department draws an impression that present coalition Government is deteriorating public education policy and encouraging privatization and commercialization of education deliberately, and is not willing to bring accountability and transparency in the system”, he alleged.
The meeting in one voice urged upon the Government to immediately release pending salary as well as other dues and concede other burning demands to avoid any confrontation with the teaching community.
USTA appealed all the trade union of teachers to come on one platform for strengthening public education and getting fulfilled their long pending demands.
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