Plus 2 PSC Lecturers highlight demands

Excelsior Correspondent
RAMBAN, Mar 4: District working committee of All J&K Plus Two PSC Lecturer Association, Ramban, held a meeting in which the present educational scenario of School Education Department was discussed at length.
The meeting was attended by the delegates of different Higher Secondary Schools of the district including executive members. The delegates said that recent upgrading of middle and high schools will ensure easy access to higher secondary education on one side and will also create employment to educated youth on the other side. Lecturers also said that these newly upgraded schools should be made functional in order to overcome the problem of accommodation and over crowded classes.
Plus two lecturers emphasized that it is imperative to provide sufficient infrastructural facilities and competent teaching staff in these institutions so that the target of quality education may be achieved. Lecturers present in the meeting expressed dissatisfaction over the issue of transfers of plus two lecturers working in far off areas of winter zone. The Lecturers said that they have been working in the remote and far flung areas for last so many years and as per transfer policy they should be repatriated after completing their tenure in hard zone. “It is beyond logic to understand why the process of submission of online application forms was carried on if only some selected lecturers were to be transferred,” they added. The members appealed DSEJ to issue transfer orders of lecturers who are working out side locality in winter zone before the commencement of academic year so that academic process may not hamper.
The members also raised some of the genuine and long pending issues including implementation of Assured Career Progression ACP in favour of plus two lecturers, placement of lecturers as senior lecturer and revocation of SRO 202. Plus Two lecturers also appealed Governor, Advisor Khurshid Ganai and members of SAC to address the humanitarian issue of revocation of SRO 202 because it adversely effects the work culture in the institutions and disturb the psychological well being of lecturers appointed under SRO 202.
Those who attended the meeting, included Shakeel Ahmed Runyal, Ranjay Kumar, Javaid Iqbal Naik, Mohd Iqbal Padhar, Fareed Ahmed Ganie, Perveiz Ahmed Sohil and M A Katoch.