Ref No: USTA/57 PRESS RELEASE Date: 23-01-2021
A deputation of J&K United School Teachers Association (USTA) under the leadership of Rajeev Kumar Provincial Presiden met B.K. Singh Administrative Secretary to Govt. School Education Department Jammu and Kashmir UT in his office Civil Secretariat Jammu and put forth the charter of demands which includes :-
● Introduce pre-primary class by providing additional teachers and infrastructure in all schools having primary classes as the admission age in government schools is five years whereas it is three years in private schools.
● Debar teachers from all types of non-academic duties including BLO, COVID-19 pandemic etc. to make them focus on education of children.
● Adjust all the left out newly promoted lecturers in various subjects who are waiting for their adjustments for the last 15 months and accord charge allowance in favour of all newly promoted temporary lecturers as per previous practice.
● Regularise all incharge lecturers, Headmasters, ZEOs and other officers of the education department working in their own pay and grade since long.
● Transfer policy framed by government vide Govt. order no. 622-Edu of 2015, but not implemented transparently. Unprivileged (masters/ lecturers) sections have to face descrimination. It remains purely a matter of pick and choose normless and arbitrary. Repatriate/ Transfer on priority all Teachers, Masters, Lecturers, and Head masters who have completed much more than their tenure in far-flung areas as well as out of their district.
● Fill up all existing vacant posts of Masters, Lecturers, Headmasters, ZEOs, Principals and non-teaching staff by way of DPC.
● Make proper allocation of budget to release pending salary and other arrears of teachers and masters working under centrally sponsored schemes now Samagra, which includes 7th pay commission and DA arrears of head teachers, about 22 months salary of grade 2 and grade 3 teachers regularised w.e.f 2014 to 2018.
● Create Master grade posts for upper primary schools as per RMSA pattern.
● Convert all left out RRets into teachers grade II and III as per SAC decision
● Release 1st time bound in favour of undergraduate teacher appointed with effect from January 1992 to 1997. Also accord senior teacher grade to trained undergraduate teachers.
Administrative secretary held detail discussion with the delegation on all the demands one by one in a very cordial manner and he briefed that work is going on some issues like implementation of transfer norms, regularisation and DPC process etc and assured to resolve all the demands in near future.
Others who were present in the meeting includes Hari Singh, Sajad Mirza , Yonus Rahi and Ganesh Datt etc
