Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 8: The members of Thathri Development Front (TDF) District Doda RR Manhas, KK Rao, Om Raj Bhall, Advocate Kanwarjeet Singh Thakur, Layaqat Ali, Behari Lal Bhagat, Javeed Iqbal Batt and Yog Raj Sharma have appealed to the Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu to create and advertise the district wise posts of teachers and lecturers in the rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir.
The members also expressed concern over the deteriorating plight of Government Degree Colleges and Higher Secondary Schools in rural areas of Union Territory due to non-availability of teaching staff.
Highly educated and qualified unemployed youth of J&K had pinned hopes that they may be absorbed as there exist large number of vacant positions in respect of teaching staff in various GDCs and Government Higher Secondary Schools.
They said that the vacancies of teaching staff vary in different streams and reportedly in some streams the situation is worst due to non-availability of staff since long times.
The members of Thathri Development Front are not averse to the recently issued orders of the JK-UT administration regarding filling up of 10,000 posts, of which according to the order, most of these posts pertain to Class IV vacancies and Panchayats Assistants etc, but there is no mention of filling up of vacant posts in GDCs and GHSSs.
The members of Thathri Development Front District Doda have appealed before the Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu to take cognizance of the deteriorating plight of student community across Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir due to non-availability of teaching staff and to take immediate necessary steps so that filling up of vacant posts in GDCs and GHSSs is taken up on fast tract basis, and future of students is saved to some extent.