Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 20: All Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh Teachers Federation (AJKLTF) today demanded probe into the pick and choose policy going on for the adjustment of the newly promoted teachers and masters of Jammu division.
Addressing a press conference, Bhushan S Verma, president, All Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh Teachers Federation (AJKLTF) said that the promoted masters to lecturers and teachers to masters in the Jammu Division have not been adjusted till date, while the promoted teachers and masters have been adjusted in Kashmir division.
Some of these promotees have been adjusted in schools through pick and choose method the Federation alleged and demanded probe into the matter vis-a-via adjustment of promotees of the Jammu division at the earliest.
Verma added that the Administrative department is making transfers and adjustment of teachers, master and lecturers making Chief Education Officer (CEO) and Directorate of School Education (DSE) Office defunct. If the powers of the CEO and DSE were being used by the administrative department, then these offices should be closed, he said.
He demanded selection grade to under graduate teachers, earned leave for vocational staff in the education department at par with Central Government vocational staff, initial higher start to graduate and post graduate teachers, providing salary grants half yearly, allotment of salary grants under SSA and RMSA to be allotted at an earliest and filling up of the posts of teachers of all cadre lying vacant in schools.
Among others present were Maheshwar Parsad, Convener, Mohan Singh, senior vice president, Ravinder Verma, Kuldeep Singh, Kiran Pandita, Prem Singh, etc.
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