Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 30: Monthly meeting of All J&K ReT Teachers’ Forum was held here today under the chairmanship of State president Vinod Sharma.
The meeting was attended by the executive members of the Forum, including district presidents and highlighted various issues and demands of the ReT teachers.
While speaking on the occasion, Vinod Sharma highlighted the issue of SSA salary due to which thousands of Regularized ReTs of the State are suffering and their families are living miserable lives. Pointing out that even as the Government released 2 months salary recently, still the same is pending for last 4 to 6 months, he urged the Education Minister and Finance Minister to make provision for the release of SSA salary and arrears of these teachers as they are unable to provide basic facilities to their families.
He also demanded regularization of ReTs whose files are lying in Directorate of School Education Jammu and have obtained degrees from UGC recognized Universities, regular as well as through distance mode. Even ReTs with less enrolment, whose schools have not been clubbed due to geographical conditions, are also waiting for the regularization and are suffering badly, he added.
Vinod Sharma also demanded the transfer policy in favour of regularized ReT teachers as per High Court judgement and said that they have been working in the same schools for last more than 15 years.
Provincial president Rajesh Jamwal, while speaking on the occasion, demanded cancellation of attachments of teachers and Masters in the offices of CEO Ramban and CEO Doda.
Others, who also spoke on the occasion, included Sukhdev Singh Sumbria, Rajesh Jamwal, Lekh Raj Parihar, Ravinder Singh, Surjeet Singh, Pankaj Verma, Subash Chander, Pawan Sharma, Dinesh Kumar Manzoor Malik, Bhupinder Singh, Manhor Choudhary, Deepak Gupta and others.