Graduate electric engineers proceeded on one day’s mass casual leave and staged a dharna to bring pressure on the Government to meet their demands. They have been complaining that despite various supplications to the authorities to alleviate their complaints nothing has been done. This has forced the engineers to go on one day’s mass leave and then sit on dharna.
Ironically, instead of promoting and regularizing the incumbent engineers at higher posts they are kept as in charge or ad hoc or temporary charge although the Supreme Court has, in one of its orders, said that in-charge or ad-hoc appointment will automatically cease after six months and the incumbent will be entitled to regularization in the post he has been working as in-charge. J&K Electrical Engineering Graduates Association (JKEEGA), the organization that is spearheading the protest says that the employees have been providing service under harsh conditions including danger to life at times for rendering very sensitive service, yet they are not treated at par with other services.
We find that there is weight in the demand of the graduate engineers which the authorities concerned should try to understand and resolve before the employees are driven to wall. The Government should try to understand and order dialogue with the graduate engineers and find an amicable solution to their grievances. Their rights cannot be trampled under the foot.
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