Indefensible defence is any argument of the Jammu & Kashmir on the continuing hunger strike of the SSA teachers over their demands for implementation of 7th Pay Commission recommendations and delinking of salaries as the previous popular government too constituted committees to look into both the demands of the agitating teachers but the committees failed to resolve the issue with some workable recommendations. Heads of the top helmsmen of the state government overseeing the working of the school education department should have hanged their heads in shame to see teachers sitting on hunger strike on streets in Srinagar and Jammu the twin capital cities of the state on September 5 this year instead of celebrating teachers day with the student in the premises of the schools but shamelessly they took pride in celebrating the teachers day without primary and middle school teachers at a gala function at SKICC Srinagar.
Keeping in view the concerns of both the general public and as well as the students on the continuing hunger strikes and protests of thousands of primary and middle school teachers better it would be for the government to reach out to protesting teachers with a proposal for time bound resolution of their two urgent demands to the end the continuing chaos in government run primary and middle schools.
Though new governor Satya Pal Malik should have taken note of the protests by teachers in city centre Lal Chowk Srinagar one or two days before the teachers day celebrations but he too has obviously turned a deaf ear to the cries of teachers on the city streets in both Srinagar and Jammu the twin capital cities of the state. The time when the examinations of the students are drawing closer after every passing day in Kashmir valley and parts of summer zone in Jammu division shockingly the government does not bother to pay any head to both the pending demands of the SSA teachers and shockingly the helmsmen are not even trying to reach out to the agitating teachers to persuade them to return to classs with some satisfying assurance. A couple of press statements by the government with an appeal to agitating teachers to return to classes is not all that which can satisfy the protesting teachers but a proper invitation for a meeting of the leaders of the J&K Teachers Forum could have been a proper way of handling the issue with administrative wisdom. Keeping in view the concerns of both the general public and as well as the students on the continuing hunger strikes and protests of thousands of primary and middle school teachers better it would be for the government to reach out to protesting teachers with a proposal for time bound resolution of their two urgent demands to the end the continuing chaos in government run primary and middle schools.
