Relieve headmaster serving on deputation, demands JAC

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, November 4

A delegation of the Joint Action Committee (JAC), UT Chandigarh, met Director Public Instructions DPI (S) Kamlesh Kuma, seeking immediate relieving of Shekhar Chandar, headmaster at GMSH in Sector 26, who is on deputation from Punjab.

The committee members informed that the headmaster had already availed the extension of two years as per the Punjab government rules up to October 31, 2014.

The members alleged that despite the DEO Chandigarh Administration relieving the headmaster, he was still occupying the post, which is illegal and unjustified.

Swarn Singh Kamboj, RTI activist-cum-president, UT Cadre Educational Employees Union, Chandigarh, claimed that though the headmaster had retired on October 31, and the department had already issued his relieving order the same day, he continued to serve on the same post.

Till date, Chandar has been marking his attendance while defying all orders of the department, he alleged.

Kamboj said, “How can a government employee, who has been issued relieving orders, join duty without getting the joining instructions”.

The delegation of JAC members, including Bhag Singh Kairon, convener, appealed to the DPI to relieve the headmaster immediately. The members claimed that the DPI had assured them that Chandar would be relieved at the earliest.