Plus 2 Lecturers organize UT level meet, highlight issues

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 2: A UT level meeting of All JK +2 Lecturers’ Forum was held today through virtual mode under the chairmanship of R S Slathia with President Pardeep Singh Rakwal presiding over the meeting.
Forum members from Kashmir division and District Presidents of all districts of the UT joined the meeting and spoke at lengths on variety of issues confronting the +2 Cadre. Main agenda of the meeting was regularisation of I/C lecturers holding PG degrees through distance mode in Science Stream.
The meeting resolved in one voice that these lecturers have been posted after verification of their degrees by the Directorates of School Education Jammu/Srinagar in the light of SRO 339 dtd 20.12.2005, Govt Order. No 940- Edu of 2017 dated 17.11.2017 and Govt. Order No.252- HE of 2012 dated 30.05.2012.
The speakers from both the divisions, including Pardeep Singh Rakwal expressed their resentment for unwanted delay in regularisation of these lecturers as the same degrees have been recognized by Jammu & Kashmir PSC and SSRB. Slathia expressed surprise over the fact that these degrees have been given recognition for the direct selection of Lecturers in Science stream by JKPSC and SSRB but the Department of Education is unnecessarily harassing the I/C lecturers and delaying their regularisation. The speakers further said that lecturers have been regularized holding such degrees in the recent past alongwith regularisation of others.
Other issues that came under discussion included grant of ACP in favour of +2 Cadre, repatriation of Lecturers/Principals working in hard/very Hard zones, Non-vacation status in favour of plus two Principals and creation of posts of Vice Principal in all Higher Secondary Schools in JK UT, transfer policy in favour of SRO 202 employees, revisiting of ATD during the months of Jan – Feb in winter Zone areas and May- June in summer zone areas of the UT, regularisation from lecturers to Joint Directors, etc.
The district presidents in one voice stressed that academic excellence can be achieved only by filling all vacant posts of Lecturers, Principals, CEOs, DIET Principals and Joint Directors.
Others, who spoke in the meet, included Dr Jyoti Prakash, Abdul Majeed Sofi, Dr Sushma, Renu Langae, Dr Ashok Kumar, Kamal Lal, Ghar Singh, Shakeel Ahmed Bhat, Pardeep Koul, Khateeb Ahmed, Jagjeet Singh, Ravinder Singh and others.