Srinagar|July, 27: Jammu & Kashmir Teachers Joint Action Committee (JKTJAC) has expressed it’s deep concern over an order issued by the School Education Department on transfer of Rehbar-e-Taleem teachers .
In a statement issued here on Wednesday the Jammu and Kashmir Teachers Joint Action Committee ( JKTJAC) has termed an order of School Education Department which reads” Rets shall not be transferable except on mutual transfer bases” biased and Unfair. According to the above referred statement JKTJAC convened an online zoom meeting of it’s state executive leaders and district presidents on Tuesday, July 26 in which all the stakeholders of the forum raised their voice against the said order and demanded immediate amendment in service condition rules of Rets in order to bring them at par with other cadres of the teachers. Moreover according to the statement the Chairman, JKTJAC has decided to meet top officers of the School Education Department soon to discuss this long pending and grave issue of the transfers of Rehbar-e-Taleem teachers (ReTs). The meeting, according to the said statement, was chaired by Chairman JKTJAC Saleem Sagar, in which top leaders of JKTJAC including Vice Chairman Reyaz-u-Rahman, Vice President Parvaiz Iqbal, Qazi Tasleem, Malik Ashraf, Ashiq Rasool, Azad Hussain, Ghulam Nabi Srigufwara, Abdul Masjid, Peer Mushtaq, Manzoor Ahmad and others participated.
Deliberating upon the issue of transfers of ReTs in the meeting the Chairman JKTJAC , according to the above quoted statement, said that this is totally unfair to keep a particular cadre of teachers deprived of the right to transfers, because there are instances when an employee needs to be transferred on genuine grounds. He said that government can not stick to the decades old practice of making Rehbar-e-Taleem teachers (ReTs) non transferable and let it continue for ever. Stating that decades ago no one was ready to work in rural areas due to poor road connectivity, disturbances in prompt transport and communication facilities in rural areas, the JKTJAC leaders said Rets as such were bound to work in inaccessible areas. He said that thought braving all odds, during such difficult times Rets have brought up education standards in rural areas but now there is a good road connectivity , good communication and most of the teachers have their own transport facility and now the word “inaccessibility” has lost it’s relevance. Chairman JKTJAC said that Rets are enough competent to work in High Schools and also Higher Secondary Schools, Stating therein further that If Govt wants to tests their competence as they did it previously there should not be any issue in bringing them under transfer policy. “In present era it holds no genuineness to say a particular cadre of teacher is non transferable, there are female teachers who have got married in other districts, why don’t they hold the right to get transfer’, he added.
Chairman JKTJAC further said that if authorities don’t refrain from issuing such biased orders which hurts the very sentiments of a particular cadre of teachers, JKTJAC would choose the path of agitation. He demanded immediate amendment in the service conditions of Rehbar-e-Taleem Teachers Rets, and demanded that a good transfer policy should be brought in place to bring Rets at par with other cadres of teachers.
