By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Tribal Welfare Department has decided to redress the long-pending problems faced by the teachers and employees of the educational institutions being run by it. Special camps would be organised for this purpose.
These special camps would be organised for redressal of personal and service-related problems of teachers at every development block from May 16 to 30 during summer vacations. All the formalities regarding organisation of the camps would be completed by May 15. Block Development Education Officers would be the nodal officers of these development block level problem redressal camps. Instructions to this effect have been issued by Commissioner Tribal Development Jaideep Govind to all the divisional deputy commissioners, assistant commissioners and district coordinators.
Before organisation of these camps, heads of development block and district offices would sort out from May 1 to 15 as to what kind of claims are pending. All the necessary formalities about redressal of these claims would be completed by May 15. All the office heads, assistant commissioners and district organisers would remain present at these problem redressal camps. The Problems which might not be redressed at the development block level would be sent to assistant commissioners and district organisers for further action.
The problems to be redressed include time-bound scale, promotion, fixation of pay scale after time-bound scale, promotion, cases of deputation and sanction of leave, amendment in seniority list, timely payment of travel allowance, maintenance of G.P.F. Passbooks, provision of second copy of service book, entries of capability enhancement to be made in the service records, making monthly payment slips available and pension cases.
The district-level problems put up for redressal at the problem redressal camps would be solved by District Education Officers by June 15. Applications for redressing problems received at the development block and district levels would be disposed of at the district level camps. The applicant would be intimated in this connection. Divisional deputy commissioners tribal development would also remain present at the district level camps. The deputy commissioners would dispose of the applications from concerning districts at the district level camps.
The applications which need redressal at the state level would be sent by divisional deputy commissioners and assistant commissioners to Commissioners Tribal Development by June 30, 2008.
It may be mentioned that many problems of teachers and employees working in departmental educational institutions remain pending for long due to which they are unable to concentrate on their work. Inability to redressal of these problems sometimes results in litigation. Therefore, it is imperative to redress such personal problems and claims through formal process within time-limit. ([email protected])