Srinagar Sept 04: (KNS) The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference President and Member of Parliament from Srinagar Dr. Farooq Abdullah in his message on Teachers’ Day said that societies all around the world are indebted to teachers, who not only impart academic knowledge but also share ethical values, and imbibes morality that shapes student’s future and through him/her a nation’s.
“Teachers deserve our utmost gratitude and respect, the students in particular and society in general should be thankful towards teachers every time,” Dr. Farooq said while expressing gratitude to all the teachers for their efforts towards nation building.
“The day is marked by the birth anniversary of an iconic teacher and erudite personality, Sarvapali Rada Krishnan ji. My father Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah also started his career as a teacher. Education always remained his top priority,” he said.
Dr. Farooq also lauded the teachers for their efforts to impart education to students through online mode during the prevailing pandemic situation. He however expressed concern over the plight of teachers in the private education sector, saying that the teachers working in the private sector continue to remain at receiving end due to lingering pay anomalies. Most of the teachers in the private sector, he said, continue to remain underpaid.
“There is a great need to do away with the discrimination and end the festering pay anomalies faced by the teachers working in private sector,” he said.(KNS)