Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 13: Demanding a job policy for them, Vocational Trainers in the Government schools in Jammu and Kashmir held a strong protest demonstration, here today.
Carrying banners and placards in support of their demand, the protesting Vocational Trainers raised slogans and appealed the Lt Governor for his personal intervention to ensure justice with the aggrieved trainers, who are highly qualified.
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Having the recognized degrees like Ph D, M Tech, MSc, MTTM, MCA, BE, B Tech, BSc, etc and experiences in the required streams with extra ordinary training skills, these Vocational Trainers were engaged in the Government High School and Higher Secondary Schools to impart training to the aspiring students under RMSA Schemes/Samagra Shiksha.
The Vocational Education has been made compulsory from 6th to 12th standard and J&K BOSE has introduced the curriculum in running academic calendar along with academic one.
“We are working since 2016 with no increment for the last 6 years and complete uncertainty over our future as the Government has failed to introduce a job policy for the Vocational Trainers despite assurance for the same,” they said.
“Unfortunately we have been deprived of our basic and fundamental rights of existence in the educational system as there is no policy for our future or development. On the other hand National Education Policy (NEP-2020) stresses upon the vocationaization of individual education,” they added and claimed that they have proved their potential through their students who are self sufficient, confident and dependent after being trained under guidance and passing the classes.
Reiterating the demand for job policy, the protesting Vocational Trainers urged the J&K Government to take necessary steps in this regard on the analogy of Haryana, Assam and West Bengal Government to secure their future and potential in the interest of students and nation as a whole.
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