Nawanshahr, December 31
Panic and resentment prevails among school lecturers promoted in May last year as the state education department has started sending show-cause notices as part of its proposed move to revert those whose names did not figure in the fresh seniority lists of master cadre. Discrepancies had been found in some of the lecturers' cases, which were cleared by the Department Promotion Committee in December 2011. The affected school lecturers have started exploring legal remedy against the proposed move of the state government.
Besides, Bhupinder Singh Warraich, state president, Democratic Teachers Front (DTF) and Prem Rakker, state president, Government Teachers Union (GTU) have warned the government that a massive stir would be launched if the government did not roll back its decision to revert the promoted lecturers. Instead, the government should fill up the vacant posts of lecturers by promoting the "eligible" left out cases from the master cadre, they said.
"As at the time of promoting masters as lecturers, there was no seniority list and the cases for promotions were not demanded as per the seniority but by giving a cut-off date, it is illogical to review the cases after preparing the seniority lists now," said Balvir Kumar, district DTF president. He said if there were some left out cases due to the negligence of individuals in submitting their cases timely or due to any other reason, the government should consider their cases on merit for promotion to fill up the large number of posts lying vacant in the schools instead of punishing the promoted lecturers. "In fact, the government was at fault as the promotion cases were cleared by the DPC without following any principles, yardsticks, seniority list and criterion, as maintained by the review committee."
"Moreover, the state government should not apply the criteria of seniority list retroactively," said the DTF leader.
Panic and resentment prevails among school lecturers promoted in May last year as the state education department has started sending show-cause notices as part of its proposed move to revert those whose names did not figure in the fresh seniority lists of master cadre. Discrepancies had been found in some of the lecturers' cases, which were cleared by the Department Promotion Committee in December 2011. The affected school lecturers have started exploring legal remedy against the proposed move of the state government.
Besides, Bhupinder Singh Warraich, state president, Democratic Teachers Front (DTF) and Prem Rakker, state president, Government Teachers Union (GTU) have warned the government that a massive stir would be launched if the government did not roll back its decision to revert the promoted lecturers. Instead, the government should fill up the vacant posts of lecturers by promoting the "eligible" left out cases from the master cadre, they said.
"As at the time of promoting masters as lecturers, there was no seniority list and the cases for promotions were not demanded as per the seniority but by giving a cut-off date, it is illogical to review the cases after preparing the seniority lists now," said Balvir Kumar, district DTF president. He said if there were some left out cases due to the negligence of individuals in submitting their cases timely or due to any other reason, the government should consider their cases on merit for promotion to fill up the large number of posts lying vacant in the schools instead of punishing the promoted lecturers. "In fact, the government was at fault as the promotion cases were cleared by the DPC without following any principles, yardsticks, seniority list and criterion, as maintained by the review committee."
"Moreover, the state government should not apply the criteria of seniority list retroactively," said the DTF leader.
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