Our regularization being prolonged, say SSA teachers
Srinagar: The school education department has come under severe criticism for withholding the regularisation of hundreds of teachers recruited under erstwhile Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) scheme in the department.
The teachers said their five years tenure was completed in 2017 and 2018 but the Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) was delaying the issuance of regularisation orders for unknown reasons.
A group of aggrieved teachers complained to this newspaper that the department has withheld the files on one or the other pretext causing unnecessary inconveniences to the teachers awaiting regularisation for more than one year.
“We have completed all the formalities and submitted the credentials in the department last year. But we fail to understand the reason behind issuing the orders in favour of teachers,” a group of aggrieved teachers said.
According to teachers more than 100 teachers belong to Sopore education zone alone. “Not only Sopore but the teachers in other zones and districts have been denied their regularisation orders which is sheer injustice with us,” the teachers said.
Notably the state administration has started regularisation of SSA teachers as Grade II teachers in the state budget under virtue of which their salaries will be delinked from MHRD funding.
“Most of us are graduates and post-graduate and would figure first in the list for being adjusted as Grade II teachers but the department is unnecessarily delaying the process,” the teachers alleged.
They said the officials at the helm of affairs were creating unnecessary hurdles in the process.
“We approached the authorities several times but they give deaf ears to us. We are being dodged from one table to another under one or the other pretext,” the teachers said.
Pertinently, the state administration has winded up the ReT scheme in J&K state saying that the scheme was being misused by the politicians for their vote banks.
“But we are already recruited in the department are rendering our services from past more than five years. Unfortunately, the authorities are denying us our right,” the teachers said.
Director School Education Kashmir (DSEK) Muhammad Younis Malik when contacted said the he will take up the matter with joint director SSA to review the issue.
“Nobody will deny the regularisation of teachers as it is their fundamental right. You have put this matter into my knowledge and I will discuss it with the concerned officials,” he said.
KV Correspondent
