Srinagar: The date of 1st May which is being celebrated as Labour’s Day throughout the world, has been observed as Black Day by the Rehbar Taleem Teachers of the Jammu and Kashmir, to protest against the irregularities and long delays in their salaries.
Supporting the already given protest call by chairman Jammu and Kashmir Rehab-e-Taleem Teachers Forum Gazi Abdul Aziz , and its president Vinood Sharma, on 1st of May which is globally being celebrated as labours Day, more than fory one thousand Rehbar-e-Taleem Teachers across the state who are being paid their salaries with long delays from Sarva Shiksha Abiyan “a centerly sponsored scheme” , observer Black Day instead of Labour’s Day, in order to show their resentment to government for not delinking their salaries from centerly sponsored scheme ” Sarva Shiksha Abiyan” to state sector.
“We have been engaged and regularised under Rehbar-e Taleem Scheme which is
a state based scheme, so we have a right and we want to get regular and timely salaries from state sector”, said the state genral secretary JKRETTF Saleem Sagar.
“Our salaries are released only once or twice in a year from centre, consequently we wait for remaining months for a long time. This untimely release of our salaries brings us under starvation”, said Azad Hussain another representative of the forum. “We also suffer for daily requirements to run our households, even some teachers having health related issues in their families , can’t get medicines for ailing family members in time”, he added. “As we are not in a position to pay monthly loan instalments, our bank loans gather excessive interests, and some teachers have been declared defaulters”, said a Rehbar-e-Taleem Teacher working under the said scheme.
State genral secretary Saleem Sagar said, “However, government many a times assured us that our salaries would be delinked from central source of funding and would be paid from state sector on monthly basis, but no concrete steps have been made yet”.
