Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 23: Unemployed engineers held protest outside Divisional Commissioner office, here today.
Amid slogans, a large number of unemployed engineers assembled outside the office of Divisional Commissioner under the banner of Unemployed Engineers Association, a state level association working for the upliftment of unemployed engineers since its inception, here and held protest.
While speaking, President, Unemployed Engineers Association J&K Er Sheraz Ahmed Malik said that various posts of engineers are lying vacant in PHE, I&FC, R&B, Disaster Management Department, Road Transport and Technical Education Department, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic and Communication and Computer Engineering in different departments.
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He added that even after the promotions of Junior Engineers as Assistant Engineers, they are holding the charge of Junior Engineers due to non-selection of fresh Junior Engineers and due to non reference of posts to the selection authority for the reasons best known to the department concern. Despite filing of RTI, the information has not been provided by the department for non reference of vacancies, he stated.
Malik further said that they qualified engineers are waiting for the advertisement of the posts, but that has not happened and many of them are going overaged, adding that even MGNREGA (Department of Rural Development) are not advertising the posts of engineers and if they advertise instead of making selection of merit base, they have selected blue eyed persons of politician and no selection has ever been finalized.
He stated that it has been observed that there was nexus of politicians and the officials of the department in non referring the posts of engineers since long and have adjusted only there kiths and kins on contractual or adhoc basis so that they can be regularized after some time without facing any selection process.
Later, a memorandum was submitted to Governor through Divisional Commissioner Jammu, in which the unemployed engineers demanded immediate advertisement of the vacant posts of the engineers in various department, besides taking appropriate legal action against the officers and officials of different department for non referring of these posts to the selection authority.
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