Police on Wednesday resorted to lathi-charge to disperse protesting Rehbar-e-Khel Teachers demanding regularisation. Meanwhile, former CM, Ghulam Nabi Azad condemned the lathi charge.
Agitated ReK teachers began the protest march outside Jammu’s Press Club, but a police contingent deployed to the area stopped them from obstructing traffic.
Police used lathi-charge to break up the march and dispersed the crowd.
Under the aegis of the Jammu and Kashmir Rehbar-e-Khel Teachers Association, hundreds of Rehbar-e-Khel teachers protested for the sixteenth day in a row on Wednesday and urged the region’s administration to keep its commitments to them.
In an effort to remind the administration of the commitments made with their delegation at Raj Bhavan in Srinagar on May 29, 2022, the Rehbar-e-Khel teachers organised a protest.
The agitated ReK teachers argued, “The committee was also set up to address our problems, but it has not yet presented its final report and our reasonable demands are not being met, so we were obliged to intensify the protests.
They claimed that the LG administration has directed the department to implement the order which was proposed by the committee earlier and it is against the policy and cabinet order of Rehbar-e-Khel Teachers.
We perform out our responsibilities with enthusiasm, but the present administration fails to treat us fairly, they continued, adding that although policy states that Rehbar-e-Khel Teachers should be given priority for available PET vacancies, the government is planning to unfreeze the frozen positions, which is completely injustice to them.
Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Ghulam Nabi Azad, has condemned the lathi-charge by police on Rehbar e Khel teachers who have been protesting in Jammu for the past sixteen days.
In a tweet, Azad said that the lathi-charge on the protesting teachers was “unfortunate and condemnable”. He called on the government to address the demands of the teachers and find a resolution to the ongoing protest.
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