Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 11: All J&K Graduate Engineers Association, Civil (GEASSOC) today lauded Principal Secretary, R&B Department for opening the deadlock of long pending regularisation of engineers.
The Association today held its executive meeting at Lok Nirman Bhawan in which regularisation of services of 384 in-charge engineers as Assistant Engineer in one go was widely lauded and the credit was given to the Principal Secretary, R&B Department, Shailendra Kumar.
Speaking on this occasion, Gopal Sharma president and Rahat Gupta vice president GEASSOC said that engineering fraternity shall not forget the contribution, dedication and sincere efforts of the Principal Secretary in resolving the long pending demand of the Association which has brought enthusiasm among engineers.
Besides issuing PWD manual, he has initiated lot of revolutionary reforms in the department. They termed the regularisation of engineers as historic initiative in PWD which has restored the dignity of demoralised engineers for which engineering fraternity will always remain forever indebted to him. He has proved that if the administrative head exerts and looks into the problems, he can resolve these and take the deptt to new heights.
For which they offered special thanks to Principal Secretary and his team including Addl Secretary Shahid Mehmood who have really worked hard for removing the bottlenecks in regularization.
Anil Thapa, general secretary said that engineers are having high hopes from Pr Secretary and expected issuance of SRO for already approved Assured Career Progression (Running Grades) in the favour of Engineers.
Mujib Tak (State Chief Patron, GEASSOC) terming Shailendra Kumar as blessing for PWD (R&B) said that earlier in 2007-08 as Secretary of R&B Deptt he had given directions to improve the basic structure of posts by making it a pyramid structure and increased the posts of Assistant Engineers and today positive results have surfaced when mass regularization of engineers is seen and the task which was seeming difficult earlier has been accomplished.
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