PG Teachers Association meets Advisor, submits memorandum

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 2: A delegation of Jammu and Kashmir Post Graduate Teachers Association (PGTA), led by its President Naresh Kumar, met Farooq Khan, Advisor to the Governor of J&K, at Circuit House, Canal Road, Jammu and submitted him a memorandum of demands for early redressal.
The Advisor gave a patient hearing to the deputation and assured early action. In the memorandum, the Association highlighted the demands, which include regularization of l/c incumbents in School Education Department through set norms by referring their cases to PSC but not through routine Cabinet decisions by giving one time exemption every time, filling up of all the vacant posts of Masters through early DPC, early disposal of FIRs against the officials of School Education Department for promoting teachers as Masters on the basis of fake degrees in 2013-14, adjustment of all surplus Masters/Lecturers against available vacancies, detachment of all the attachments of Teaching/ non Teaching employees in School Education Department and adjustment of only those recently promoted Teachers/Masters as Incharge Lecturers, who have done their PG through regular mode.
The Association urged the Advisor to issue necessary instruction to stop the promotions in School Education Department on the basis of fake degrees obtained by in service Teachers/Masters from tuck shops, particularly in Science subjects.