Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 25: The State Government today withdrew its order of appointment of Special Relief Commissioners and asked them to report to their parent departments with immediate effect.
The General Administration Department (GAD) today issued order asking the Special Relief Commissioner Central, Shalinder Kumar, Special Relief Commissioner North Mohammad Shafi Rather and Special Relief Commissioner, Jammu, Bipul Pathak, to report at their respective places of postings with immediate effect.
The State Government appointed Bipul Pathak as Special Relief Commissioner for Jammu on September 10 after floods in Jammu region and Shalinder, Rather and Asgar Hassan Samoon as Special Relief Commissioner for Central, North and South Kashmir respectively on September 16 after flood hit Kashmir valley.
The Special Commissioners were tasked to coordinate relief and rehabilitation work in Kashmir and Jammu regions where over 280 persons died and losses worth thousands of crores of rupees were caused due to floods.
And in another order Special Commissioner, South Kashmir, Asgar Hassan Samoon, was recalled on September 22. He was asked to perform his normal duties as Commissioner Secretary to Government Agriculture Production Department. This was done in view of the enormous losses caused to the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry sectors.
The Commissioner Secretary GAD, Ashraf Bukhari, told Excelsior that the Special Commissioners were appointed under extra-ordinary circumstances and now the emergency situation is over and they have to perform their own work as their departments too have suffered heavy losses.
Over three dozen officers and officials who were taken from various departments as support staff for these Special Commissioners were also asked to report to their parent departments.
Meanwhile, the officers deployed temporarily, with the Director, CA&PD Kashmir, except Shafqat Iqbal, Joint Director, Information, Kashmir have also been withdrawn, with immediate effect and shall report at their original places of posting, a Government order said.
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