GAD to conduct audit of eHRMS on priority
Transfer window to remain open from Ist to 30th April
Mohinder Verma
JAMMU, Mar 16: Government of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has decided to prepare dossier of employees, who are participating in strikes in blatant violation of Government Employees (Conduct) Rules. Moreover, departments will be held accountable wherever such strikes are resorted to for inaction on the part of officers.
Official sources told EXCELSIOR that in a recent high-level meeting Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta observed that despite employees’ friendly approach of the Government, some vested interests are provoking employees to resort to strike which shall now be closely monitored.
“On one side, the departments will be held accountable wherever such strikes are resorted to for inaction on the part of any authorities while as on the other side unruly employees will also be proceeded against”, sources said, adding “the Chief Secretary has issued directions for preparation of dossier with complete record of participation in strikes by the employees in violation of J&K Government Employees (Conduct) Rules.
“The Government has adopted employees’ friendly approach and will address all genuine demands of the employees as such the employees are expected to regularly apprise concerned authorities about any genuine grievance and the concerned authorities are expected to address them in a time bound manner and if required escalate these to the superior authorities”, sources said quoting the observations and directions of the Chief Secretary. He has directed all the departments to undertake DPCs regularly and resolve other Human Resource issues in a time bound manner.
It is pertinent to mention here that Rule 20 of the J&K Government Employees (Conduct) Rules states: “No Government employee shall engage himself or participate in any demonstration which is prejudicial to the interest of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, public order, decency or morality, or which involves contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence and resort to or in any way abet any form of strike in connection with any matter pertaining to his service or the service of any other Government employee”. “Government employees who resort to strike will face disciplinary action”, the Rule 20 further read.
In the Rule, strike has been defined as mass abstention from work without permission; refusal to work overtime; resort to practices or conduct which is likely to result in or results in the cessation or substantial retardation of work in any organization and such practices are called go-slow, sit-down, pen-down, stay-in, token, dharna and hunger strike.
Meanwhile, the Government has directed all the departments to ensure that transfer window will remain open from April 1 to April 30 beyond which no transfer request shall be considered without the prior approval of the Chief Secretary.
“In order to ensure strict compliance of these directives several departments have already asked their employees who are eligible for transfer to submit formal applications on the dedicated emails or portals instead of personally approaching the Heads of the Departments or the Administrative Secretaries concerned”, sources said.
Moreover, the Government has directed the General Administration Department to have the audit of e-HRM (Human Resource Management) System completed on priority and respective departments have been told to ensure timely rectification of the identified deficiencies.
EXCELSIOR in its edition dated December 13, 2022 had exclusively reported that Government of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has decided to carry out changes in the Employees Performance Monitoring format as per the requirements of the departments and keeping in view deliverables assigned to them.
According to the sources, the Government has also directed that the Annual Performance Reports pending with officers at different levels be completed by March 31, 2023 and no officer to sign/accept out-dated APRs or record comments in any APR for the period earlier than 2020-21.
“Failure to comply with these directions would invite adverse remarks in the APRs of the officer”, read the instructions issued by the Chief Secretary.
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