JAMMU: The Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Tara Chand, has asked the Education Department to regularise Education Volunteers within a week.
Mr Chand chaired a high level meeting of the provincial officers as the administration opened in the winter capital after shifting from Kashmir valley.
The meeting took a detailed review of the activities of the department in various districts of the province, an official statement said.
Taking note of available vacancies in the department, the Deputy Chief Minister directed the concerned to take up the matter on priority and fill the vacant posts in time bound manner.
“Rural and border belt students are suffering most due to the shortage of staff and early recruitment and fast track promotions would address the problem to quite an extent,” he said.
Calling for early regularization of education volunteers, Mr Chand said all those volunteers who have completed seven years should be regularized with a period of one week and “no delay on this part would be tolerated.”
There are examples where EVs have rendered over eight to nine years of service before being regularized as Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReTs).
The EVs have been appointed under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA) Scheme in 2002-2003 and were yet to be regularized, despite repeated contacts made with the government.
After their appointment, EVs were supposed to hire a building for providing basic education to students from 1st primary to 5th standard. An Education Volunteer gets Rs 1000 as monthly honorarium for his services.
There are examples where EVs have rendered over eight to nine years of service before being regularized as Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReTs).
Mr Chand said recruitment for socially and educationally backward area and those near Line of Actual control has been approved on the pattern of ReTs, adding that the same should also be completed at the earliest so as to give a boost to education in these backward areas of the state.
