STATE TIMES NEWS
KATHUA: Jammu Kashmir Government Teachers Forum (JKGTF) held a district body meeting under the chairmanship of its union territory General Secretary S. Parveen Singh on Sunday at Kathua. The main demands highlighted and discussed by the senior members of the forum were regularisation of in-charge teachers who promoted in 2018 from lab assistant , removal of pay anomalies in favour of master grade, issue promotion list of master grade which has not been issued since 2016, DPC of all cadres of education department i.e teachers to masters, masters to headmasters, lectures to principals, filling up all the vacant posts of Headmaster as most of the schools are without head throughout the UT of Jammu and Kashmir, sanctioning of posts of class IV and junior assistant.
While addressing the meeting Parveen Singh expressed great concern over the stagnation in promotion of the education department. The number of employees are suffering for their due promotion as they have consumed their maximum service length in the same grade. He appealed to the education authority for redressal of the genuine demands of the teaching community at the earliest.
Those who participated were Surjeet Singh Jasrotia, Devinder Singh, Jagdish Chander, Angrez Singh, Sunil Kumar, Bharat Bhusan, Tarsem Lal, Mohan Lal, Rajesh Kumar and Madan Lal.