493 Rehbar-e-Taleem teachers regularised in Jammu division

Altaf Bukhari, Priya Sethi hand over confirmation orders

Jammu, Dec 16: The Government has regularised the services of 493 eligible Rehbar-e-Taleem Teachers of Jammu division as the Minister for Education, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari and Minister of state for Education and Culture, Priya Sethi handed over the confirmation orders to the educators at a function here today.
Addressing audience of senior functionaries of the department and representatives of teacher and ReT forums, Syed Altaf Bukhari listed series of reforms taken and those in the pipeline to raise the education standard in Government schools and address the issues of serving and retired teaching fraternity.

The Education Minister announced to establish a dedicated office of Nodal Officer in Kashmir and Jammu Education directorates to address the issues of retired educators, including principals, headmasters, masters and teachers with regard to their promotion, regularization, gratuity, pension cases and others.
“The state owes a lot to the former educators who dedicated their lives to enlighten the people with education and achieve us what we are today. I firmly believe that they continue to be the partners in the department and their issues need to be solved on priority,” the Minister asserted. He asked the department to give first priority to the retried officials, while regularizing the promotion of in-charge principals, headmasters and ZEOs.
Minister of state for Education, Priya Sethi, urged the teachers to leave indelible footprints in their service to the society, while assuring that all their issues will be addressed in similar way.