Jammu, August 7, 2021: All J&K Ladakh Teachers Federation (AJKLTF) affiliated to Akhil Bhartiya Rashtriya Shikshak Mahasangh demanded immediate retention of powers of DSEJ.
The members also sought holding of DPC which was not held since 2014.
President AJKLTF /ABRSM J&K UT Devraj Thakur, said the UT government has been ignoring their demands and threatened to intensify their struggle if their demands were not considered soon.
Thakur also demanded a transparent transfer policy and fixation of allowances for teachers working in remote areas.
He said they had presented a Memorandum of their demands to the Higher Authorities many times, but they preferred to ignore it. They said if the government failed to consider their demands soon, they would agitate.
“We express our concern to the Education department for not initiating speedy disposal of pending issues of teachers community wherein to extend the benefits for Grade II & III teachers in their transfer matter,” he said adding that the teaching community have expressed deep concern for sealing the powers of DSEJ and CEOs in matters of DPC and transfer of all cadres. He demanded that powers should be retained immediately.
There is also resentment among the community for not giving preference to the teachers posted away from home at a distance of 50 to 250 kms, he said and demanded that a transparent/rational transfer policy should be framed and implemented to make the system work efficiently. Lack of proper implementation of present transfer policy -AND 2021 created frustration among the Principals, ZEOs, lecturers Masters, teachers as well as Grade ll & III Teachers who are serving in far-flung areas since long, he said adding that they have lost all hopes and got frustrated due to favouritism policy in the department. The pick and choose in recent past transfers were made in violation of much-talked about transfer policy only to accommodate nears and dears of influentials.
“There is anomaly in the pay scales of Teachers/Masters in comparison to other states of the country. The Sixth Pay Commission recommendations are required to be implemented uniformly. Number of anomalies remained unaddressed such as the junior teachers are getting higher salary than the senior teachers,” he said.
