Teachers’ Guild seeks adjustment of surplus, attached Masters

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 4: Teachers’ Guild Jammu and Kashmir today sought early and suitable adjustment of non-joined; deployed; attached and surplus masters of Jammu division, who are awaiting adjustment orders of their suitable posting in their home districts.
In this connection an urgent meeting of  the members of State executive council of Teachers Guild Jammu and Kashmir was held under the chairmanship of State president, Nasir Ahmed Qurashi, at its headquarter, Circular Road, Jammu.
Besides, Virender Kumar Sharma, Mohan Singh Choudhary, vice presidents, TGJK, Advocate Mohd Farooq Faraz Qurashi, legal advisor, TGJK, Narayan Baru, programme coordinator, Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Wani, convener, literary cell, TGJK and heads of other cells of Teachers Guild were also present in the meeting.
The issue pertaining to adjustment of non- joined, attached, deployed and surplus Masters came into discussion and threadbare conversation was held in the meeting. As per the information presented in the meeting by the RTI  and Legal Cells of Teachers Guild around about 40 Masters are still attached in Jammu district besides 65 non- joined Masters are still awaiting further adjustment due to one reason or the other.
The members took a serious note of the attitude adopted by the higher authorities in resolving the issue. It was noticed that many Masters, who had served in odd districts of Jammu province have not been given soft or suitable posting in Jammu district resulting in non- joining while in other cases no consideration has been given for other grounds vis-a-vis medical, security etc.
In his address, Qurashi expressed dissatisfaction over the procedure adopted by authorities in the adjustment of Masters and appealed to the Government to re-address the grievances of non- joined, deployed, attached and surplus masters at an earliest.
He appealed to Nayeem Akhtar, Minister for School Education and Priya Sethi, Minister of State for Education and Culture to personally intervene in the matter.