* New Police Sub Divns approved
Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 23: The State Administrative Council (SAC) which met under the chairmanship of Governor, Satya Pal Malik here today, accorded sanction to the release of an additional installment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Government employees and pensioners from 01.07.2019 representing an increase of 5% over the existing rate of 12% of the basic pay/pension.
The decision will benefit around 4.5 lakh Government employees and 1.6 lakh pensioners.
The arrears accumulated on account of DA hike will be paid in cash in the month of November, 2019. The impact on the State exchequer on account of enhancement of DA would be Rs 725 crore for the financial year of 2019-20.
The SAC also approved creation of Police Sub-Division at Marwah in district Kishtwar.
It also approved creation of nine posts for the Police Sub-Division, Marwah. The posts include one post each of Deputy Superintendent of Police, Head Constable and Selection Grade Constable, four posts of Constable and two posts of Constable (Ops).
The SAC approved creation of a Police Sub Division at Gurez, to be headquartered at Dawar in district Bandipora, and creation of one post of Deputy Superintendent of Police for the Police Sub Division, Gurez.
It would be pertinent to mention here that Marwah and Gurez Sub Divisions encompass vast area mostly with tough terrain. The distance from Marwah to the District Headquarters at Kishtwar is about 70 Km via Dachhan and 250 Km via Sinthan Top. Similarly, the distance from Gurez to District Headquarters at Bandipora is over 65 Kms. Due to lack of proper accessibility to these areas, the grievance redressal in these areas needed further attention.
The creation of Police Sub- Divisions at Marwah and Gurez will bring people of these areas closer to civil and police administration and help address their grievances effectively.
The SAC also accorded sanction to the stepping up of pay of senior officials (Police Head Constables) to address the pay disparity at the level of Head Constables of Jammu and Kashmir Police vis-à-vis their juniors, in relaxation of the rules, prospectively, from the date of issuance of orders.
It further directed that such anomaly should not be allowed to arise in future and the constables who are due for in-situ promotion before their functional promotion should be considered for the same before granting them any functional promotion.
The decision will benefit about 6000 police personnel, ensure pay parity, remove existing pay anomalies and prevent such recurrence in future. This will also boost the morale of the police personnel, an official handout said.
The SAC has also accorded sanction to the creation of 16 posts for new District Jail, Pochal, Kishtwar.
The posts include one post of Assistant Superintendent, one post of Head Warden, seven posts of SGW/Warden and one post each of Warden/DRV, Computer Assistant, Sr. Assistant, Jr. Assistant, Electrician, Barber and Safaiwala.
Presently, the Jail is being run on internal arrangement basis. The creation of posts will improve the functioning and management of the Jail.
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