Excelsior Correspondent
AKHNOOR, July 23: Villagers from Bamaal area near Jourian held strong protest demonstration on Akhnoor-Jourian-Khour road, against the Education authorities and disrupted movement of traffic for over an hour today.
Reports said the villagers including Panchayat members put a lock on the local Primary School at Bamaal today and came out on the road to hold protest demonstration against the Zonal Education Officer concerned (Akhnoor) and Chief Education Officer, Director School Education and the Dy Chief Minister Tara Chand.
They raised barricades on the road and disrupted movement of traffic. The vehicular movement came to grind halt on this busy road. Panchs Roop Lal and Sunita Devi were leading the protest. The villagers alleged that local girl Nisha Devi, who was engaged as ReT teacher in the Govt Primary School Bamaal about three and half years back, was asked by ZEO not to continue further as another girl had been engaged on her place. She was also asked not to put attendance in the register. She took up the matter with the Panchayat members, who took serious note of the issue. They pointed out that how a girl with high merit engaged as teacher under ReT by the Government panel and working for the last over three years can be disengaged with verbal directions by ZEO.
They placed a lock on the school, blocked the road and started raising slogans against ZEO and CEO Jammu besides DyCM Tara Chand and the DSE Jammu. Naib Tehsildar and SHO rushed to the spot and assured the people to take up the matter with the concerned authorities. The agitating people then lifted dharna at around 12.15 pm and allowed movement of traffic.
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