Says protest by teachers is taken toll on education of students
Srinagar (PR): National Conference Leader and MLA Ganderbal Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar on Tuesday urged the Governor led administration to fulfill the demands of Sarva Shikhsha Abhiyaan (SSA) teachers.
In a statement issued here, Ishfaq said, “These teachers are at war path with the state government from the past several months for the government’s decision not to include them in the benefits of 7th pay commission. Though the government constituted several committees to look for measures to address their issues, nothing has finalized till now, which has forced them to go on imitational path. Implementation of 7th pay commission is legitimate and legal right of SSA teachers, head teachers and RMSA masters.”
In any civilized civilized society, the compulsion for the teaching community to hit the streets and agitate and raise voice for their genuine grievances is reflective of declining societal values associated with the status of teacher.
In the entire execution and implementation of SSA scheme for more than nearly two decades now, the new and sudden reinterpretation of the scheme that is pushing teachers to the wall is not only surprising but also shocking and putting teachers under the hammer for no fault of their own and bluntly exempting those who were at the helm of affairs at the launch of this scheme. Putting the onus on the teachers for the mis-implementation of scheme is truly unfair and unjustified, Ishfaq added.
“It is high time that the government takes keen interest to resolve the issue of these teachers, as a teacher not only has a significant role in the making of an individual human being, but in the making of a society, a nation and the world at large,” he further added.
“A teacher’s job becomes mainly to inspire and enhance an individual as a human being, which has always been the main task. The government must start immediate negotiations with them,” Ishfaq was quoted as saying.
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