CAG has come down with a heavy hand on the Human Resource Wing of PHE, a wing that was created in 2011 with a view to streamlining the personnel, vigilance and human resource development functions in the department. Human Resources Management (HRM) branch in the PHE department aims to deal with personal matters of State cadre employees in so far as they relate to promotions, seniority lists, Annual Performance Reports, departmental enquiries, vigilance cases and also to maintain oversight of similar records at levels one below the State cadre. In its report submitted to the Legislative Assembly, the CAG has touched upon a number of aspects in which the PHE has failed to do what it was expected to do in streamlining the administration including regularization, promotion, salary fixation and other matters of its huge skilled as well as unskilled manpower. The CAG observed that against sanctioned staff strength of 23,941 under various categories, the effective staff strength was 19,233. Although, there was overall shortage of 20 per cent of the sanctioned strength, shortage of staff was more in the cadres of Assistant Engineers (AEs) (19 per cent), Junior Assistants (49 per cent) and other categories (20 per cent) which were mainly field staff. In addition, 32,067 (Kashmir: 11,615; Jammu: 20,452) casual/ seasonal labourers engaged as daily rated workers (DRW)/ need based workers (NBW)/ community participation workers (CPW) work in divisional offices and field also. The non-regular persons were 167 per cent of the regular staff.
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