Agriculture Officers Association discusses issues pertaining to cadre

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, July 30: J&K Agriculture Officers Association (Gazetted Direct recruits) held a meeting under the chairmanship of its President Dr Aadil Rashid to discuss various issues pertaining to the cadre.
The members flayed the Government for ignoring Agriculture Technocrats in granting time bound promotions on the pattern of veterinarian of Animal Husbandry Department. The members vehemently opposed Government’s selective move to grant non functional promotions under Assured Career Progression Scheme to doctors & KAS/KPS officers only, inspite of announcement on the floor of house during budget speech by the former Finance Minister Dr Haseeb Drabu during 2018 to extend the benefit of ACP scheme to the gazetted officers of Agriculture and Horticulture Department besides Engineering Department but till date nothing concrete has been done so far to bring technocrats under the ambit of ACP scheme.
The officers also expressed concerns over prolonged stagnation in department as Government has failed to conduct DPC of gazetted officers since framing of J&K Agriculture Gazetted Service Rules in 1988 as officers are retiring at their entry level pay scale even after rendering 30 to 35 years of regular service in the department. Association also lamented government for ignoring vital sector which is main source of livelihood for rural people as government didn’t find any merit to create post of Director for Agriculture in newly carved Ladakh Division.
The officers made fervent appeal to Governor Satya Pal Malik while expressing hope of getting justice to look into the genuine issues of gazetted officers of Agriculture Department.
Among others present were JC Raina, Suresh Khajuria, Dr Ashwani Sharma, Deepak Singh, Neeraj Rajwal, Rajesh Verma, Sushil Kumar and Ajaz Kohli.

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