UDHAMPUR: A monthly meeting of All J and K ReT Teachers Forum was held on Sunday at Exhibition Ground Jammu under the chairmanship of State President Vinod Sharma and was attended by the Distt. Presidents and State Executive Body members of the Forum .
While speaking on the occasion Vinod Sharma highlighted the genuine issues of ReT cadre.
He said that the ReT teachers are being harassed by the department in the name of screening test whereas still it is not cleared by the department that which boards or universities are fake and which are genuine.
He further appealed to the Govt. not to harass the teachers who have acquired their degrees from UGC recogonised universities.
He said that ReT teachers under SSA are without salary for the last more than four months and have been facing a lot of problems to meet out the daily basic needs of their family members including clothing for their children and medicines for their ailing parents.
He said that SSA salary issue is a chronic problem and needs a permanent solution for the welfare of thousands of ReTs of the state. He also demanded early regularisation of ReT teachers who have obtained their degrees from UGC recognised universities and whose files are lying in the Office of Director School Education Jammu for last six months.
Executive members of the forum appealed the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to personally intervene to resolve the issues of ReTs teachers and stop their harassment otherwise the forum would be left with no other option than holding strong protests throughout the State by locking their schools .
Others who also spoke on the occasion includes Sukhdev Singh Sumbria , Rajesh Jamwal, Sham Sharma, Rajender Kumar, Lekh Raj Parihar, Jasbir Singh, Ravinder Singh, Navjot Singh, Manzoor Malik, Hans Raj, Vinod Shastri, Manohar Chowdhary , Surinder Sharma, Anil Dev Singh, Suresh, Dinesh Singh, Rajinder Singh and Raj Mohan Singh.