Month: September 2018

September 05 Hundreds of Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers protested Wednesday to press for various demands, including implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission, inviting water canon and baton charge by police, who also took 30 of them into preventive custody. The teachers had assembled at the Sher-e-Kashmir park here to observe "black day" on the occasion of Teachers' Day. As soon as the teachers stepped out of the park and started marching towards the SKICC, where a function marking Teachers' Day was in progress, police stopped the protesters and asked them to disperse, an official said. As the teachers refused, police used water canons and batons to break the march, he said. The official said at least 30 protesters were taken into preventive custody to restore order in th...

September 05 After five days sit-in protest by Jammu Kashmir Rehbar e Taleem Teachers Forum (JKRETTF) and the indefinite hunger strike by the Teachers Joint Action Committee, teachers community celebrates Teachers Day as Black Day to protest against callous attitude of the Government towards their genuine demands of implementation of 7th Pay Commission and delinking of SSA/RMSA teachers. Dressed in black clad, thousands of teachers under the banner of Rehbar-e-Taleem Teachers Forum   stage sit in protest at Sher-e-Kashmir Park demanding justice and hunger strike at Pratap Park continues by Teachers Joint Action Committee to press the demands. “While teachers across country celebrate Teachers Day, in Jammu and Kashmir teachers are forced to come on roads sit on dust for their legitimate ...