Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, June 8: Former minister and president DCC Kathua, Dr Manohar Lal Sharma today termed recent recruitment notification of Class- IV employees a cruel joke and betrayal with educated unemployed youth of Jammu and Kashmir.
While opposing the new recruitment rules Dr Sharma said the Union Territory administration had notified special recruitment rules for filling up of vacant Class-IV posts in all the departments and brought an end to the division and district specific recruitments which he said was gross injustice. He sought modification of the new rules with repeal of SRO-202, a Government order of 2015 under which the appointees in Government service get only basic pay for the first five years of their service.
Describing the new recruitment rules as unconstitutional and anti-youth, Kathua DCC chief said denying the legitimate remuneration to appointed youths amounted to grave injustice besides the violation of the principle of `equal pay for equal work’. Seeking the withdrawal of the SRO-202 and modification of new rules, Dr Sharma cautioned the Government to refrain from testing the patience of the `unemployed force’ of the J&K UT.He said previous BJP-PDP Government has incorporated SRO-202 clauses which are not only injustice but brazenly unconstitutional in nature.
He said five-year probation instead of two years with denial of increments is totally against the right to equality enjoyed by all other citizens across the country except for the residents of J&K.
As per a communique of General Administration Department, Accelerated Recruitment Committee, which was constituted on May 14, has identified and forwarded 7,052 vacancies of Class-IV posts of 19 departments to General Administration Department for their further referral to J&K Services Selection Board under Rule 4 of the Jammu and Kashmir Appointment to Class-IV . He said earlier only the local youths were eligible for the district cadre posts in their respective districts except the candidates of scheduled castes categories. Now, all domicile holders including from the rest of country who qualify as per new domicile law would apply and compete with the local youth. He questioned the preferences to the youth having no family members already in Govt service and said that unless income bar is attached, the benefits can be availed by well off families. He also sought revocations of terminations of employees under SRO 24 and quashing of SRO 520 for the betterment of the youth and employed section and daily wagers.
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