Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 17: Jammu Kashmir Government Teachers Forum ( JKGTF) has sought immediate release of their salary and promotion of teaching staff. According to press release a meeting was held under the chairmanship of the District President Surjeet Singh Jasrotia at Kathua. The main issue discussed in the meeting were early release of salary of teachers, masters working under RMSA, SSA, DPC of all streams, pay anomalies of master grade, non engagement of teachers as BLO, adjustment of zonal education officers, regularization and confirmation of all teaching staff etc. Amar Nath Thakur expressed great concern over all the issues and said that number of times forum highlighted the demands but no action has been taken to minimise the prime issues of the teaching community. It has come to the notice of the forum that our honourable governor is taking keen interest to solve the problems. S Parveen Singh State Gen Sec stated that it is only the education Deptt in J&K Govt where you can see stagnation in promotion. Our education authorities are not serious about promotion as result teachers are spending maximum service length in their initial grade. Those who attended the meeting were Jagdish Chander ,Tara Mani, Des Raj, Kali Dass, Tarsem Lal, Jasmeet Singh, Mohan Singh, Bharat Bushan,, Rakesh Kumar. |