Education Department officials in Kashmir asked to identify “““deadwood and submit their list in 15 days
SRINAGAR, DECEMBER 23: The UT administration is contemplating to identify ‘non-performing’ teaching and non-teaching staff in government schools and show them the door.
Sources that the Principal Secretary School Education Department, Biswajit Kumar Singh, in a letter dated December 21 last has asked the Director Education Kashmir, Tasaduq Hussain Mir, to prepare a list of teaching and non-teaching employees who are “non-performers’’ or “deadwood’’ and submit the same to his office within 15 days for onward to the General Administration Department, otherwise serious action under rules will be taken. The copies of the letter have also been marked to CEOs, ZEOs and the head of institutions.
Pointing out that the department has a huge number of employees, the letter read “many of them are not performing their duties to the level of expectations and desired results leading to large drop out and lower outcomes’’. “How a department having around 1:10 Teacher student ratio can have such result,” he questioned.
“As such, it becomes inevitable to identify the non-working or dead wood in both teaching and non-teaching faculty who have either emptied the schools in enrollment by mostly resorting to private coaching/side business or have created corrupt or malicious work culture in offices which has put the public to great inconvenience and have proven counterproductive to the growth of the department,’’ the letter read.
“This department is under strict instructions from Generation Administration Department Vide O.M. No. GAD dated 6-12-21 and during different meetings for identifying employees of the department as mentioned in above paragraphs for their consideration under Article 226(2) of J&K CSRs,’’ it pointed out.
“In this backdrop you are hereby directed to prepare list of such employees as per the norms and furnish the list to this office within 15 days for onward transmission to general administration for necessary action otherwise serious action under rules will be taken,” it said.
Meanwhile, a Kashmir based news agency quoting an official of the Education Department said that complaints had been pouring in from almost every Zone across Kashmir that a vast number of teachers are running side-business while some non-teaching staffers in different Zones resort to harassment and corrupt practices.
“You won’t believe in Gulab Bagh Srinagar Zone, some teachers have installed sign boards publicizing their coaching centres. In Budgam Zone some teachers are running shops while in Narbal Zone some are acting as land brokers. This is the story of every Zone,” he said.
Following is the copy of the letter from Principal Secretary School Education:
