Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 15: The Non-Gazetted employees of Civil Secretariat today observed one day pen down strike and held strong protest in support of their long pending demands.
The chairman of J&K Secretariat Employees Coordination Committee, Ghulam Rasool Mir was leading the protest. The employees struck work and came out of their respective offices and then started protest demonstration in the Secretariat complex. Mr Mir said that the issues which were projected before the Government which included removal of pay anomalies, career progression/ cadre review besides issues of ration and security problem etc were not addressed by the authorities. He said that the Secretariat Union is pursuing these issues vigorously and had many deliberations with the higher authorities but it has been observed that the authorities at the helm of affairs especially in GAD, are not projecting/ recommending the genuine demands to the authorities at higher level.
Mir pointed out that some officers having negative mindset and dealing the subject matter in GAD, are trying to sabotage this issue all along. He said that they are always guiding their superiors to frame such rules which apply very harsh for the Non-gazetted employees, which is forcing non-gazetted employees to come open for confrontation, while as on the other hand they keep/ amend rules for their own purposes/ benefits time to time. Similarly, there are also middle rung officers in Finance Department who always project our issues before the authorities with a negative approach, which is clear from case file of cadre review of Class IV employees which has been returned/ turndown twice by the Finance Department, Mir maintained.
The chairman further said that no doubt GAD has recommended a few posts as cadre review to Finance Department for concurrence as an eye wash but unfortunately, that file too has been projected unconstructively from the bottom. The issues can’t be resolved till the officers of such mind set exist in the GAD. He further said that only a year before, the Government created new administrative units without considering financial implications and recently Government considered cadre review of IAS and KAS cadre without forwarding the same to Finance Department for concurrence. In both these cases, there are huge financial implications but Government approved without any delays, Mir added.
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