Panthers Party protests against Edu deptt

| Ramban |

Carrying forward the series of protests against the devastated education system in J&K which is teetering to brink due to prevalent corrupt practices in Education Department, scores of Panther activists of NPP led by Mr. Sewa Singh Bali General Secretary Panthers Trade Union staged a vociferous protest demonstration at Ukhral in district Ramban today. While raising slogans, the angry protesters burnt the effigy of Director SEJ for her brazen involvement in illegal transfers, attachments and promotions of the teachers in the education department.
Speaking to the media, Mr. Sewa Singh Bali regretted that several schools in remote and far flung areas of Ramban have become defunct due to the shortage of teachers, masters and lecturers.�The academic activity of the students has been severely affected in the past many years due to the deficiency of the teaching fraternity in the schools located in the hinterland. Shockingly, thousands of employees including the teachers, Masters, Lecturers and even ReTs are found attached in the office of DSEJ, CEOs, ZEOs, Tehsildars in entire Jammu division against which they have been drawing salaries without any work. All such malpractices have been committed by DSEJ on extraneous grounds in gross violation of the guidelines and rules�, Bali said. He further stated that thousands of such incumbents are also drawing the HRA by causing huge burden on the public exchequer. Crores of rupees have been siphoned off by these employees. This tantamount to HRA scam, Sewa Singh asserted.
Highlighting the glaring example of nepotism in the Directorate School Education, he said that hundreds of promotions of teachers/masters as in-charge lecturers in 10 +2 were made even for those who were holding invalid degrees. He further stated that by making the contemptuous mockery of the Supreme Court directions besides standing instructions of the Principal Secretary, more than 250 invalid degree holders in science subjects through distant mode had been adjusted in Jammu division by the DSEJ till date. �This was done by the Director SEJ with a motive to adjust her brother in law (Jeth) as Lecturer in physics namely Rajesh Gupta figuring at S.No.52 of promotion order who is holding invalid post graduate degree in physics from Vinayaka Mission university. At present he is working at DIET Samba as lecturer physics. Moreover, she has also transferred her sister in law (Jethani) who has been working as ReT in blatant circumvention of the policy�, revealed Bali.
He demanded high level probe against the erring bureaucrat for her involvement in corrupt practices and immediate revocation of all the appointments done on the basis of invalid degrees besides cancellation of all other illegal transfers and promotions of the teachers done by the DSEJ.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Panch Yusuf Jameel, Panch Bahar Ahmed, Mohd. Ashraf Sohail, Alaf Din, Chain Singh, Mandeep Singh, Anchal Singh, Jeevan Singh, besides others.