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Bhadarwah: All Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh Teachers Federation aft. with Akhil Bharatyia Rashtaryia Shakshik Mahasangh on Saturday demanded removal of “huge pay anomaly of teachers and masters and other employees in Jammu Kashmir”.
JKUT President and National Auditor ABRSM, Devraj Thakur in a press statement on Saturday said that their counterparts in rest of the Indian union territories are “far ahead than them in terms of Grade Pay and other service benefits”. He claimed that teachers in all other Union Territories of India are placed in Grade Pays between 4200 to 5000. While as, here in Jammu and Kashmir, the same teacher is placed in Grade Pay of just 2,800 with a huge difference and discrimination.
Thakur alleged that they were being discriminated upon by the government by not addressing the “huge pay anomaly between several cadres in and outside the department”. AJKLTF leader appealed LG of J&K Manoj Sinha , Chief Secretary of JKUT, Principal Secretary to Government school Education department, Chairman Pay Anomaly committee J&K and the other officers appointed as members of pay Anomaly committee to immediately address the long pending demands of teachers of J&K and bring them at par with Teachers of other UTs of India in respect of pay and grades.