Day: March 12, 2019

Rajouri,March,12: District Election Officer, Rajouri Mohammed Aijaz Asad today chaired a meeting with officers associated with elections to review the election preparedness in the district.

A multitude of issues like provision of Assured Minimum Facilities (AMFs) at the Polling Stations, implementation of MCC, communication plan,transport plan,security plan, training to polling personnel and SVEEP activities.

He also discussed availability of basic facilities at the polling stations in all the polling stations for the smooth and hassle free conduct of general elections 2019.

It was informed about the number of polling stations that are without electricity, drinking water, toilet and other basic facilities in the polling stations. It was also informed that the work is in progress by the concerned departments to ensure availability of basic facilities in all the polling stations in the districts, like constructions of toilets by education department,ramps by the PWD and RDD and facilities of drinking water by the PHE department and will be completed within a weeks time.

He also said that basic facilities like availability of electricity, drinking water, toilets, ramps, wheel chairs, transport are mandatory at all the polling stations for the smooth conduct of elections and these should be put in place well in advance by the concerned departments.

While talking about MCC,DEO said the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) has come into effect with the announcement of dates for General Elections 2019.The officers were asked to ensure strict adherence to guidelines of the MCC and follow them in letter and spirit.

It is pertinent to mention here that in order to enforce Model Code of Conduct,video surveillance teams,Video viewing teams and flying squads has been constituted assembly constituency wise.

In order to ensure Assured Minimum facilities at each polling station Assembly constituency wise teams have been constituted for physical verification of polling stations and ensuring AMF.

Regarding the training of polling personnel, the nodal officer training and manpower informed that the first phase of training has been concluded. The training was conducted constituency wise at different locations and were conducted by master trainers and the assembly constituency level master trainers. He further informed that around 6000 polling personnel have been trained so far.

Nodal officer SVEEP informed that the special election vans Jashn-e jumariyat, exclusively flagged off for generation of awareness among voters and to acquaint them with the EVMs and VVPATs.He also informed that under SVEEP a total of 1200 ASHAs and Anganwadi workers were sensitised about the election process. He further said special awareness camps and nukad Nataks are being organised at different locations in association with J and K academy of art, culture and languages Rajouri.
DEO asked the nodal officer SVEEP to focus on the booths level awareness for raising the gender ratio and enrollment of the PwD voters.

The DEO directed all the officers to work in tandem to facilitate hassle-free elections in the district.
The meeting was attanded by senior superintendent of police,Yougal Manhas, Additional Deputy Commissioner,Rajouri,Sher Singh,AC Defence,Ramesh,ACR,Mohd Ashraf,ACD,Akhter Qazi, District Treasury Officer,Imran Mehmood,Chief agriculture officer,Deputy Director Employment,Deputy District election officer,Rizwan Asger,EXNs PHE,PWD,PDD,BDO,Rajouri,Abdul Khabir,ARTO,Inzar Rana.

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Rajouri ,March 12 :–With the onset of spring, the pleasant and flowering season for the employees of school education department particularly for the ones at the helm of affairs in CEO office Rajouri
also sounds started.

The new incumbent Chief Education Officer, who himself is from the hilly district of Doda is seemingly un aware of the hardships faced by the students of far flung, hilly and hard areas. The matter came to fore when some local residents of Moghla and
Khawas reported about the modification in transfers of newly posted teachers . The teachers were transferred without taking into consideration the pupil teacher ratio of these hard and hilly terrains
One Nasib ullhab and Kuldeep Singh of Khawas and Moghla Zones
alleged that  the schools are suffering badly due to the non availability of teachers and the authorities i.e the Directorate of
School Education Jammu and the CEO Rajouri are not sincere in providing the teachers to our poor and under privileged students of hard areas. They said earlier also the policy regarding the provision
of teachers for hard area schools was damaged by some vested interest
and also by the then Director of School Education Jammu , who  without
verifying the facts  put on hold the transfer of teachers to hard Zones by the then Chief Education Officer Rajouri Ch. Lal Hussain . It
is also alleged that Director School Education directed the Joint Director Rajouri/Poonch range to verify the genuineness of the orders in the absence of then CEO ,Ch Lal Hussain,  who was on Haj pilgrimage.
All this resulted in an un holy nexus of  some influential teachers, Clerks and a Section officer  in the office of CEO and they all provided  wrong information to Joint Director and  managed a new list
and accordingly  adjusted and retained their favourites ones on one hand and  many more were dropped and several became surplus  on the other leaving the poor students of hard areas at the mercy of God.
They said once again posts in hard areas/zones are lying vacant and poor students are suffering due to vested interests of these officials at the helm of affairs at the CEO’s office.They alleged that once an newly promoted teacher is posted in hard area schools then why they were shifted without providing any alternate at a time when model code of conduct is operating. The locals regretted that they see no difference in political government and the Governors rule when the thing shave not changed for them , we are still in waiting and are losing hope . It is also alleged that around twenty such newly promoted teachers are transferred back to their home zones .

The parents of the students also provided order copies of the teachers transferred back to their home zone schools which speaks volumes about the non seriousness of the school Education department authorities. .

They even reacted that the Director school Education Jammu who heads the department is  silent and mute spectator who even don’t dare to ask the ones below hierarchy for this non serious and anti student attitude. One such transfer order reads that one Teacher Pankaj  Kumar
who was earlier posted at HSS Teryath of Zone Moghla ,vide CEO Rajouri Order No. CEOR/NT/42325-95 dated 16.02.2019  is now transfereed back to MS Palwal of Zone Sunderbani vide new order No. CEOR/E2/2018-19/45344-47 dated 07.03.2019. Similarly  one Rohan Gupta earlier posted at HS Narla ,Zone Khawas , a far flung school is now transferred back to HSS Devak , of Zone Lower Hathal vide fresh order
No. CEOR/E2/2018-19/45328-31 dated 07.03.2019 was transferred back .
They also alleged that all these teachers were provided the orders on 11th of March who later on got them relieved and joined on the same day and date i.e at the time when MCC is in full operation.

The general public appealed to the District Development Commissioner Rajouri to take the cognizance of the matter and rescind the orders immediately and seek explanation of Chief Education Officer Rajouri for making the mockery of system. On question of approaching Director School Education Jammu they alleged that Director Office is also non serious and is hand in glove with each other as one Raj Kumar, a senior Assistant who served for many years in CEO office is posted by Director School Education Jammu in DIET Rajouri few months back  is also pre maturely transferred back to CEO office . His relieving order which was also made available also indicates his date of relieving as on 11th of March 2019 by Principal DIET Rajouri and his simultaneous joining in CEO office on the same day and date again making a mockery
of the system and violation of Model Code of Conduct.  They requested the DDC  Rajouri to look into the matter personally and rescind all such orders besides seeking explanation of CEO Rajouri and Principal
DIET Rajouri as he is there  only hope left . …