Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 16: The employees of Department of Information and Public Relations today held a first general body meeting for the welfare of the non-gazetted employees of the department.
The meeting was convened to discuss various issues pertaining to the welfare of the non-gazetted employees of the department. The body unanimously decided to constitute welfare body for the department and in this regard Fayaz Ahmad Bhat, Section Officer, Directorate of Information was elected President of the Welfare Union followed by Shabir Ahmad Bhat, Information Assistant as Vice President, Z. A. Guru, Assistant Editor Films as General Secretary, Suresh Kumar, Jr. Assistant, Secretary while J. L. Raina as Publicity Secretary of the Union. Farooq Abdullah as Cashier and M. Sultan Bhat as Observer from Directorate. Further, Bilal Ahmad Rather, Commentrator, Field Publicity Unit, Joint Directorate of Information, Kashmir was unanimously elected as Spokesman of the Union.
The body also decided to elect Rouf Ahmad Sofi, as Observer from Joint Directorate of Information, Kashmir while Pritpal Singh was elected as Observer from Joint Directorate of Information, Jammu. The body unanimously decided to elect Sheikh Saleem Reporter as representative from Stringers (Reporters/Translators) while Syed Ather was elected as representative from Stringer (Cameramen).
The General body also decided to nominate office bearers of Kashmir Division namely M. Shafi Dar, Altaf Ahmad Bhat, Mukhtar Ahmad Beigh, Muneer Ahmad Munir and from Jammu Division Raju Sharma and Rahul Khajuria as office bearers. From District Headquarters Tariq Ahmad Mir, Yaqoob and Atta Mohammad were nominated as office bearers.
A threadbare discussion was held on several issues and some decisions were taken in the meeting regarding welfare of the employees of the department.
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