J&K: Govt removes officer for warning teachers against social media policy discussions

SRINAGAR: The National Conference authorities successful Jammu & Kashmir connected Monday removed the main acquisition serviceman of northbound Kashmir aft helium issued a circular informing teachers against posting comments related to argumentation matters connected societal media.J&K acquisition caput Ram Niwas Sharma issued an bid attaching the officer, Bashir Ahmad Shah, to the Directorate of School Education, Kashmir, pending an inquiry. In the circular issued Saturday (Oct 4), Shah had mentioned that the acquisition caput had raised concerns during a reappraisal gathering the erstwhile time implicit the misuse of societal media by teaching and non-teaching staff.The circular said immoderate usurpation of the December 2017 societal media guidelines could pull disciplinary action, including censure, good up to 1 month’s salary, withholding of increment oregon promotion, demotion, premature retirement, oregon dismissal from service.The guidelines were not meant to discourage the constructive usage of societal media, the circular stated, but cautioned unit to refrain from “unwarranted debates, discussions, oregon posting inappropriate content”.The guidelines, issued by the past PDP-BJP dispensation, barroom authorities employees from engaging successful governmental discussions, criticising authorities policies and actions, oregon posting oregon endorsing governmental oregon communal contented online.

PDP legislator Waheed Parra criticised Shah’s circular, calling it “deeply concerning”. “In an already numb Jammu and Kashmir, this bid informing teachers and unit against raising their dependable is profoundly concerning. A govt that came to bureau connected the committedness of giving radical a dependable is present contributing to silencing the fewer remaining ones,” Parra said.NC spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq responded that the circular was based connected guidelines framed by the PDP-BJP authorities successful 2017. However, the Omar Abdullah govt inactive removed the officer.