Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 28:Up in arms against unprecedented delay in release of salaries of regularized ReT teachers under SSA, All J&K ReT Teachers’ Forum has announced to hold a massive protest demonstration on January 3 near Press Club Jammu.
Decision in this regard was taken today during monthly meeting of the Forum, held here today under the presidium of State president Vinod Sharma, State vice president Younis Rahi and provincial president Rajesh Singh Jamwal. The meeting was attended by all the District presidents besides State apex body members of the Forum.
While speaking on the occasion, Vinod Sharma expressed strong resentment against the Government for making them suffer for want of release of several months’ SSA salary. He said that they had projected the matter before the Government many times but nothing was done to streamline the SSA salary. Regularized ReT Teachers under SSA are without salary for last 3 to 9 months in all the districts of the State and are on the verge of starvation, he added.
Provincial president Rajesh Jamwal said that they were left with no option other than to come on roads as the SSA salary is pending for several months. The State Finance Department has only released 50 percent of the funds sanctioned by Central Government under Centre share which is a matter of concern, he explained.
Those who attended the meeting, included Lekh Raj Parihar, Sukhdev Singh, Sukesh Khajuria, Gulzar, Subash Chander, Kewal Kumar, Jyoti Parkash, Ravinder Singh, Joginder Kumar, Manzoor Malik, Rajinder Singh, Ravi Kumar, Chander Kant, Vijay Kumar, Sohan Kumar, Parshotam Kumar, Dilip Kumar and others.
Similar monthly meetings were also held at Kathua and other places for highlighting the grievances of ReTs.
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