Teachers asked to report stray dogs, outrage in J&K

SRINAGAR: Political parties and teachers’ unions successful Jammu & Kashmir person slammed acquisition department’s caller directives mandating teachers to study stray canine populations and instrumentality portion successful “management of stray dogs”, and demanded their contiguous withdrawal and strict enactment against officials liable for issuing specified orders.

A elder acquisition section official, however, said the orders were based connected Supreme Court’s caller guidelines connected stray dogs.Jammu & Kashmir Civil Society Forum president Abdul Qayoom Wani described the orders arsenic “shocking” and said they wounded the dignity of thousands of teachers crossed the Union Territory. Wani, a erstwhile caput of Jammu & Kashmir Teachers’ Forum, said medication was assigning teachers specified duties that had “no transportation with teaching oregon world development”.PDP called the directives “atrocious”, saying teachers were meant to thatch and should not beryllium forced to execute tasks extracurricular their nonrecreational role. “Govt indispensable respect educators, not humiliate them with irrational directives,” PDP spokesperson Syed Tajamul said.Jammu & Kashmir General Line Teachers Forum said successful a connection the orders were “insulting, irrelevant and an affront to the dignity of teachers”.In the past 3 days, orders person been issued by assorted main acquisition officers crossed the Union Territory to each drafting and disbursing officers and heads of institutions of govt and backstage schools to nominate 1 nodal serviceman for “monitoring and coordination regarding stray dogs successful and astir the premises”.

According to the orders, the nodal serviceman volition beryllium liable for reporting sightings and incidents related to stray dogs.

The serviceman volition coordinate with municipal, carnal husbandry and section bodies acrophobic for “effective removal and absorption of stray dogs astir acquisition premises”. The nodal serviceman volition besides guarantee information and consciousness among unit and students.Jammu & Kashmir has reported much than 2.1 lakh dog-bite cases since 2022, with Jammu and Srinagar districts signaling the highest mean regular bites astatine 24.9 and 37.6, respectively.