Early Times Report
Kathua, Jan 8: Jammu Kashmir Government Teacher's Forum (JKGTF) today discussed demands of the teaching community. A meeting of the Forum was held under the chairmanship of its State General Secretary S. Parveen Singh. The main issues discussed were immediate release salary of teachers, masters working under RMSA, SSA as promised by the Governor's administration that they will get benefits of the 7th pay commission from September 2018, discrimination among teachers for the salary of one month of election duty. Pay anomalies of master grade, promotion for all cadres, adjustment of ZEO's and head masters, stop deployment of teachers in other duties. Amarnath Thakur stated that suggestion given by Teacher's Forum at District, State and centre level are always ignored and self-agenda is imposed by the administration so nothing concrete is found on the ground in education department. S. Parveen Singh State General Secretary of JKGTF questioned the Education Department about its non-seriousness over the issues of the salaries of RMSA and SSA. Our teacher's conditions are going bad to worst day by day as they are without salary for the last several months. Surjeet Singh Jasrotia District President also spoke on the occasion. Jagdish chander, Devinder Singh, Des Raj, Rafiq Ahmed, Rajesh Kumar, Jagdish Singh, Tarsem Lal, Kali Das, Rajiv Sharma, Jaswant Singh and others were present on the occasion. |