Kishtwar, July 10: District Development Commissioner (DDC) Kishtwar, Angrez Singh Rana issued an order regarding withholding of salaries of 10 govt. employees of Education Department Kishtwar for creating ruckus and serious Law and Order problem in Kishtwar.
The order issued by DDC reads that, on 29-06-2019,Teachers/ Masters/ Lecturers (both male and female) of GHSS (Boys) Kishtwar and GHSS (Girls) led by Prehlad Bhagat Principal, GHSS (Boys) Kishtwar and Tanveer Ahmed Malik Teacher, City Girls Middie School, Kishtwar hold a strong protest / demonstration at DC Office Kishtwar.
The protest was against the order issued by DDC Kishtwar on 17-06-2019 for smooth working and functioning of govt schools.
The said order was already modified wherein it was directed to mandatorily conduct the monthly Parents Teachers meeting in every school and the school authorities shall keep all proceedings of PTMs including the issues raised by the parents along with photographs and videography and shall share the photographs / videos to this office as well as in the Office of Chief Education Officer, Kishtwar without fail.
The order issued on 17.06.2019 was made applicable for schools falling under Red Zone in which frequent complaints about absenteeism of staff as well as closure of schools is reported .
Inspite of appreciating the efforts of administration in curbing absenteeism, these teachers instigated other teachers and held massive procession against the administration.
On the day of protest these teachers forcefully barged inside the main entrance gate of DC Offce and all accompanying teachers numbering in hundreds subsequently entered inside the premises of DC Office Complex, Kishtwar, in which some teachers delivered hate speeches while throwing all the service conduct rules in winds openly showcased their draconian character by using abusive, filthy and unparliamentarily language against the administration.
It was reported that the said Principal, lecturer, masters and teachers forcibly compelled other teaching staff to participate in the protest at large and constrained the school authorities to close down the schools due to which a lot of inconvenience was faced by the students in absence of their teachers.
These employees tried their level best to give communal flare/vent to the matter and created serious law and order problems for the district administration and as such heavy deployment of police personnel was made in order to avert any untoward incident.” order further reads.
Acting tough against the erring officer/officials of Education Department, Kishtwar, DDC Kishtwar withhold the salaries of Prehlad Bhagat Principal, Govt HSS Boys Kishtwar, Ramesh Kumar , Lecturer GHSS Boys Kishtwar, Pardeep Koul , Master
Working in GHSS (Boys) Kishtwar, Farooq Ahmed Butt , Master Govt Middle School Kuchhan, Dev Raj Teacher HS Shaana Thakrie, Tanveer Ahmed Maik Teacher City Middle School (Girls) Kishtwar, Mohd Hafiz Teacher P/S Dassa, Nagseni Education Zone, Rajesh Parihar, UPS Filler Thakrie, Reffaz Malik Teacher GHS Dambar, Mushraff Bashir ReT GMS Hasti, Kishtwar till further order.
Further, Mohd Hanief Malik, Additional District Development Commissioner, Kishtwar has been appointed as an Enquiry Officer who shall conduct discreet enquiry into the matter and furnish the report to the office of DDC within a period of 15 days positively along with the recommendations for initiating disciplinary action against above noted erring teaching staff.
