Readers' Forum

Rationalise transfer policy
Dear Editor,
The government had initiated Rehbar-e-Taleem scheme way back in late nineties which has started yielding positive results. It has not only helped tackle rural unemployment problem, but has also empowered rural women folk to a remarkable extent as a large number of rural educated females are being engaged as ReT teachers.
Now the fruit of education has been brought to the door steps of the children belonging to remote areas of the state. Let the result of census come, the literacy rate will itself speak about the grand success of SSA under which the scheme of appointing the ReT teachers was introduced.
But much more is required to be done to make the scheme more effective and dynamic. Under this scheme many rural females were appointed as ReT teachers, if not all but most of them are married. They have to travel far distances to reach the schools. It needs to mention here that at the time of appointment they were assured of transfer benefits after completing a mandatory tenure of 5 years plus 2 additional years at their schools. But as per the latest notification, they have to stay back at the schools of their original posting throughout their entire service thereby demoralizing the entire ReT teachers' community.
Since these ReT teachers are doing a yeoman's service, some moral boosting steps such as providing them transfer benefits are required to be taken. Recently, the high court of J&K has also given a verdict regarding the transfer benefits in favour of ReT teachers, therefore the authorities are requested that the transfer policy in respect of ReT teachers be re-examined and transfer benefits be provided to all the regularized female ReT teachers in compliance with the latest verdict of high court.
--Vinod Sharma
Rajouri

Don't mess up dialogue
Dear Editor,
What is dialogue, what for it is, what is its agenda, what is its backgrund, how to start it and how to cure it is an alien term for those who are not the bonafide residents of the state. It can be well understood by the people who have suffered for the vexed lapse in one way or the other. Even if we try to demystify the term to an alien or to a novice it will be a past comprehension even for an intelligent person too.
We have to search out a political treatment for a political issue. Internal dialogue is not a dialogue on boundary line, routes or on funds for development works. Political dissension is the bone of contention where economics, sociology all pale in significance except history that survives.
Pardon me, UK Bansal special secretary home ministry deputed to study the case is just to fishing in the sky. Cover of the book will hardly reveal the purport of the book. People who don't know the geography of the state what justice they can do to the problem that has played somersaults in the political fields. For restoration of peace it is the primal duty of the Centre to devise all means to establish rapport with all the shades of thoughts at any cost.
Centre has delayed the process of dialogue. One has not to wait but to plunge and motivate who disagree to come forward for dialogue. This is not a Herculean task to motivate the elements who are filled with anger or speak anger. Involve intellectuals of the state who can be the best interlocutors and can give their candid opinion on the vexed issue.
Taking a cue from the print media I feel waves of sympathy and justice have started to pour on trouble waters that rekindle realization "Come now and let us reason".
Conditions placed therein need to be hammered out on the anvil for discussion and not to be dismissed altogether to make things complicated and unpleasant. Let it be known to all that Kashmir imbroglio is heterogeneous in character and not homogeneous in nature. Inside the periphery there are buds who are to be cared about.
Let the good sense prevail upon all of us to free the state from anxiety.
PN Sus,
129, Surya Vihar, Bohri, Jammu.