Srinagar: Teachers on Saturday held massive rallies of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), General Line Teachers and Rehbar e Taleem in Anantnag, Baramulla, Budgam and Bandipora pressing government to accept their “genuine demands” else face ‘school lockdown’.
Under the banners of The United Forum teachers from all zones of Bandipora district marched from main chowk to mini secretariat here, and threatened to lock the schools from 11th of June till 13th if their demands of de-linking their salaries was not fulfilled and salaries were not regularized.
SSA teachers held protests in Budgam and Baramulla as well.
In Anantnnag Hundreds of employees of Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) Teachers’ Forum (District Unit Anantnag) protestrf in the courtyard of DC office Anantnag.
The government had earlier assured that the issues pertaining to SSA teachers will be redressed soon.
Hundreds of ReT teachers including men and women assembled at DC office Anantnag and chanted slogans in favour of their demands.
The teachers were demanding streamlining of salaries of SSA teachers, implementation of transfer policy, regularization policy and release of pending salaries.
The protesting teachers said that the government is forcing them to face hardships as the dispensation has utterly failed to take up their issues and fulfill their demands.
“Despite assurances by the education Minister’s, nothing has been done for our demands,” the protesting teachers said, adding that the government must fulfill their promises and must fulfill our demands at an earliest so that thousands of families could heave a sigh of relief.
“Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has clubbed various schemes including SSA, RMSA and others and has reduced the funds, affecting the salaries of SSA teachers. We demand the government to delink our salaries so that we will get salaries on time,” the protesters said.
“Recently, the concerned Minister assured that the SSA teaches will get their salaries before Eid but unfortunately, the government seems befooling the public as or salaries continued to remain withheld, leaving thousands of SSA teachers to suffer ahead of Ramadhan,” they said.
They later appealed the government to fulfill their demands at an earliest so that they could heave a sigh of relief.
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