The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Monday informed the Legislative Assembly that currently 964 posts of Physical Education Teachers (PETs) were lying vacant in the department.
This was revealed in a written reply of minister in-charge of Youth Service and Sports (YSS) department to a query raised by MLA Handwara, Sajad Gani Lone. Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
Lone sought reasons for freezing these posts over a decade, leading unemployment, over-age issue and mental distress among rained youth, besides adversely affecting students’ physical development.
The government in a written reply informed that all these 964 vacant posts of PETs were kept reserved for the regularisation of Rehbar-e-Khels in terms of the Rehbar-e-Khel Policy issued vide Government Order issued on October 27 of 2017.
The department has no such proposal to defreeze these vacant posts.
“All these vacant posts of Physical Education Teachers have been kept reserved for the regularization of Rehbar-e-Khels in terms of the Rehbar -e-Khel Policy,” the written reply reads.
The department further informed the House that JKSSB has made the selection of 528 Physical Education Teachers in the Department.
“However, after the issuance of the ReK Policy, all vacant posts of Physical Education Teachers have been kept reserved for the regularization of Rehbar-e-Khel, in accordance with the said policy.
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