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| Vacations aren’t vacations for CEO Srinagar | | Asks teachers not to leave station even during holidays | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 8: The latest order issued by the Chief Education Officer of Srinagar has annoyed teaching fraternity across the region. The teachers have termed the order as “ruthless diktat’ reminiscent not even of the colonial past.
On Wednesday, the Chief Education Officer Srinagar issued an order, rejecting station permission in favor of the teachers during the winter period.
The order reads: “This office has been receiving a huge number of applications from teaching and non-teaching staff seeking station permissions. In the same context, all the HODs are placed under strict instructions not to entertain/ forward any station leaving permission application from teaching and non-teaching faculty except in case of emergency/ medical conditions, keeping in view that the training schedules shall be issued very soon. Emergency/ medical cases, wherein station leaving permission is unavoidable be thoroughly scrutinized and forwarded along with required supporting documents to the office of the undersigned after due satisfaction of the DDO concerned.”
The order is being widely circulated on social media wherein people are questioning the logic behind rejecting an employee station permission during the vacation period. “Education Department is a vacation department. The teachers who are given the winter break aren’t entitled to any leave salary at the time of their superannuation. Even if they do not want to avail themselves of the winter vacation, the same is compelled upon them by the government. Now when during this leave period, if these teachers want to go out of the station, the government is ironically banning that too. This is bereft of any logic and far from the reach of the reason. The officials who have drafted such an order must rack their brains to understand that not every diktat could be masqueraded as an official order,” was how a retired teacher commented on the recent order.
“Vacation Department means a department or part of a department to which regular vacations are allowed during which government servants serving in the department are permitted to be absent from duty. Why is the department hell-bent upon scheduling the training during the peak winter period and when vacations are announced? The fact of the matter is that the department is riddled with chaos and confusion itself. While there are 19 other CEOs, why this order has been issued by the CEO Srinagar only and not by the CEO of any other district? How will the government explain the logic behind such action,” said a teacher.
Meanwhile, netizens also criticized the Education Department for such an order. “Aren’t teachers entitled to having some recreation with their kids and taking them to other parts of the country during the vacation period? I mean vacations are meant to spend time with your family and take them to places. Why is the CEO Srinagar so sadistic in his approach that he is employing such methods to hound the fraternity,” wrote a social media user while commenting on the order.
When contacted, a senior official of the department said that he will get the details and comment on the issue accordingly. However, the official later didn’t answer the repeated calls from the reporter. |
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