Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, Dec 30: A meeting of J&K Private Schools Association was organized by Sat Paul Mansotra, District President of the Association to discuss the problems of Private schools.
Ajay Gupta, General Secretary of J & K Private Schools Association was special invitee in the meeting, which drew attention towards the confusion due to Central EPFO, hassles in obtaining NOC from Traffic Police Department and failure of Education Department in imposing all types of rules and regulation on play way schools, nursery schools, tutorials, delay in granting recognition by the Education Department to the schools which were affiliated by JKBOSE on January 30, 2019 etc.
While speaking, members alleged that all obstruction are deliberately created by the Government to give benefits to politicians, bureaucrats and people serving in the Government sector who have jumped into this venture and have raised huge infrastructure in vast chunk of land and to earn only profit and gain .
The meet unanimously demanded that before making any transition from erstwhile CPF Department to EPFO, Government should initially settle discrepancy due to the wrong posting of data with regard to names, account numbers, amount etc. Moreover, they added, Central EPFO should carry forward the amount which is lying with erstwhile CPF Department or issue account payee cheques or pass books to all registered employees who have not withdrawn their deposited amount from CPF Department so that the management of the employees is able to handover the cheque/passbook to the contributor under proper receipt. They also demanded extending the provisions of pension and other accruing benefits to all subscribing employees serving since decades instead of giving benefits to those only who are registered after October 31, 2019 after the completion of statutory period.
General Secretary Ajay Gupta briefed the gathering and alleged that targeting private schools has become a feature of the Government as till date it has not bothered to issue a clear cut educational policy after the creation of Jammu Kashmir as Union Territory. He appealed to the Lieutenant Governor to intervene as early as possible to settle the grievances of the private schools functioning since decade. Those who spoke on the occasion, included Ajay Singh, Ramesh Gupta, Parshotam Sharma , Gansara Singh, Vineet Gupta, Siddheshwar Sadotra, Chain Singh, Laddi Sharma, Kulwinder Singh, Rajeev Salathia, Malhar Singh, Kuldeep Katal , Anjana Sharma , Ran Singh, Rachhpal Singh, Rajiv Jasrotia, Lawnaya Khullar, Tajinder Singh and Naresh Sharma.
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