STATE TIMES NEWS UDHAMPUR: A monthly meeting was organised by Jammu Kashmir Teachers’ Joint Action Committee (JKTJAC) on Sunday at Udhampur under the leadership of UT President Vinod Sharma and District President Lekh Raj Parihar . The meeting was attended by only executive members of JKTJAC following all SOPs under COVID. While speaking on the occasion Vinod Sharma urged the LG administration to release 11 per cent DA to the employees of UT of J&K as they have been facing a lot of hardship to make their both ends meet at the time when the prices of essential goods are touching the sky . He said that centre has already issued order for the release of hiked DA to its employees who will get it w. e.f. July 2021 and even administration of UT of Ladakh has also announced to hike the same and demanded the same to the employees of UT of J&K so that they may get a sigh of relief. He also appealed Principal Secretary School Education to resolve long pending genuine issues of teachers including comprehensive transfer policy in favour of teachers appointed under RET Scheme who have been working in the same schools for last more than 15 years, inclusion of 5 years ReT period for seniority benefits, Conversion of Headteachers (SSA) Posts to non plan posts of masters, DPC of teachers as same has not been done since 2014, revision of grade of teachers equal to their counterparts in other UTs. He also appealed DSEJ/DSEK to regularize the left out ReTs and convert the left out RRETs to Teachers Grade II/III so that they may get their salary. Lekh Raj Parihar while speaking on the occasion appealed the Chief Education Officer Udhampur to make provisions for the release of pending dues of MDM in Ghordi and Panchari as the teachers have managed the same from their own pockets. He also sought the release of stopped salary of teachers in zone Ghordi due to which their families are suffering badly. Those who spoke on the occasion were Sukhdev Singh Sumbria , Sukesh Khajuria, Ashok Seth, Pritam Goswami, Ravinder Singh Rathore, Bhushan Khajuria, Jagdish Chander Sharma, Shamsher Singh, Vijay Sadotra, Ajaz Wani, Ranjit Singh, Madan Kumar, Puma Chand, Uttam Singh, Som Raj , Gopal Sharma, Manoj Sharma and others.
