Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 12: All J&K CIC Operators’ Association, Rural Development Department, today staged a protest demanding issuance of formal regularization orders.
Hundreds of CIC Operators assembled this morning near Press Enclave and staged a sit-in protest. The protesting employees said that they have been working in RDD on contractual basis since 2004 on a meager amount of Rs 10,000 per month due to which they are facing a lot of hardships to feed their families and provide proper education to their children.
They said in the year 2014, Government passed a cabinet order to formulate a proposal for regularization of 172 CIC Operators in the Rural Development Department and in the year 2016, the J&K Government though its cabinet decision created 172 posts of Data Entry Operators for regularization of services of 172 CIC Operators vide Government Order No. 320-RD & PR of 2016 dated 14-12-2016.
“In the year 2017, the Empowered Committee of J&K Government vide its 58th meeting dated 22-03-2017 and 60th meeting dated 12-10-2017 headed by Principal Secretary, Finance Department, J&K cleared our cases for regularization under Special provision Act 2010,” the protesting employees said.
They further informed that the recommendations were also communicated to Department of RD&PR by the Finance Department J&K for issuing regularization orders as Data Entry Operators and the file also got consent from Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Department, J&K as well as Advocate General of J&K but till date the regularization orders have not been issued in their favour for the reasons best known to the authorities concerned.
The protesting CIC Operators appealed the UT Government to issue their regularization orders at the earliest.
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