Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 31: Warm send off has been accorded to the retiring officers and officials.
Finance Department accorded warm send off to its twenty five officers incl-uding three Director Gen-erals and five Directors on attaining sup-erannuation. Minister for Finance, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari, Principal Secretary Finance, Nav-een K Choud-hary and other senior officers of the department were also present on the occasion. The officers leaving the Department are Director Generals Pushpa Devi, Mohammad Ishaq Wani, Altaf Hussain Mirza, Direc-tors, Zahoor Ahmed Bhat, Shagufta Qazi, Ghulam Hassan Khan, Kuldeep Singh Jamwal, Ravinder Singh (retried as DSEJ),Vijay Kumar Tak,( FA) Chief Accounts Officers, Rashpal Singh, Abdul Rashid Khan, Yashpal Kujaria, Altafa Akther, Gul Mohammad Malik, anaullah Ahangar, Mohammad Ayoub Kutchey (Dy Dir), Ram Ratan Sharma, Accounts Officers, Abdul Aziz Bhat, Vinod Kumar, Abdul Hamid Khan, Anoop Kumar Padha, Mohammad Amin Bhat, Hakim Fida Hussain, Ghulam Mohi-ud-din Dar and Manzoor Ahmed Dar.
A warm send-off was given to Chief Engineer, R&B Kashmir, Sheikh Hamid on attaining superannuation. Private Secretary to CE Mushtaq Ahmad Malik was accorded a warm fare-well by the officers and staff. On the occasion, spe-akers recalled their contributions for the department.
Non Gazetted and Gazetted employees of Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar accorded warm send off to Head Pharmacist Gurbachan Singh Wazir, who attained supe-rannuation after rendering 37 years of service in the Health Depa-rtment. The farewell was accorded in presence of Dr ADS Manhas, Medical Superintendent, Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar. Officials and staff of Gynae Theatre, Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar namely Shivani, Pawan, Ashok, Kuldeep, Pankaj and Renu were also present.
ZPHQ Jammu bids warm send off to Inspector (M) Hardev Singh on his superannuation after rendering more than 38 years of distinguished service in the Police Department. The farewell party was given to Hardev Singh by staff members of ZPHQ Jammu, which was organized by IGP Jammu Dr SD Singh.
Balwan Singh Head Assistant, Indira Sharma Senior Assistant of Directorate Office, Ashok Kumar, foreman of DMPP Office Udheywalla and Bharat Bushan HTGII of Chief Horticulture Office, were accorded a warm farewell on their superannuation. On the occasion Director Horticulture, Jammu Anuradha Gupta, Joint Director Horticulture, Deputy Director Horticulture (Central), Chief Horticulture Officer besides other officers and officials of the department extended best wishes for a healthy post retirement life to all the retirees.
J&K Bank gave a warm sendoff to Vice President Arvind Gupta, who achieved superannuation at Corporate Head-quarters Srinagar. At the farewell, Chairman and CEO Parvez Ahmed presented bouquet and a memento to the outgoing officer and appreciated his role in different capacities throughout his 36 years long tenure.
Shaheen Akhtar, Supervisor ICDS Project Rajouri was accorded a warm send off on her superannuation. Present on the occasion were CDPO Rajouri Auqil Nuvaid, CDPO Manj-akote Najma Nazki, District Information Off-icer Mohammad Shafait, CDPO Kalakote, Supervisors in ICDS Projects Rajouri and officials of CDPO office Rajouri.
Shashi Bala, Deputy Director (Planning), BL Koul, Regional Level SMS, Jammu, Sudhir Rampal, Information Officer, Harbhajan Singh, ASSO, Jammu, Kanchan Khajuria, Subject Matter Specialist-II (Legal Cell) and SP Banathia, SDAO of the Department of Agriculture, Jammu were accorded warm farewell by the officers and staff of Department of Agriculture on their retirement after rendering 33 to 37 years of service. HK Razdan, Director of Agriculture Jammu, KS Sambyal, Joint Director of Agriculture (Inputs), Jammu, RL Bhagat, Joint Director of Agriculture (Extension), Jammu, CM Sharma, Deputy Director of Agriculture (Central), Jammu and many others were present on the occasion. Mementoes were presented to the retirees during the farewell programme.
A warm send off was given to Er Darshan Mahajan, who retired as AEE Ravi Tawi Irrigation Division Kathua. He rendered 40 years of service in different division of the Hydro Wings. A function was organized under the supervision of Executive Engineer KK Gupta and other colleagues at Kathua to give warm send off to retiree.
On attaining the age of superannuation, a warm send off was given to SI Karam Chand and Senior Pharmacist Ramesh Kumar of SPS PTS Kathua by the employees of PTS Kathua. SI Karam Chand and Senior Pharmacist Ramesh Kumar have attained the superannuation after rendering 39 and 29 years of services respectively in the Police Department. The farewell party was organized by PTS staff under the supervision of Principal PTS Kathua.
A function was organized at IRP 16th Battalion Ramban to bid warm send off to Abdul Rashid, Head Constable, who attained superannuation after completion of 41 years of service. AK Mahajan, SSP, CO IRP 16th Battalion, officers and jawans of the battalion and guests of the retiring officer were present on the occasion.
A warm send off was accorded by officers and staff of Health Depa-rtment to Ravinder Kumar Kach-roo, Se-nior Pharm-acist of Government FAC Muthi Ist, who attained superannuation.
JKSPDC Corporate office organized a farewell to Mushtaq Ahmed Bhat, Section Officer, JKSPDC Corporate office, who attained supe-rannuation after rendering 41 years of services in PDD and PDC. Various senior officials of JKSPDC along with MD Dr Shah Faesal were present on the occasion.
The staff members and students of Government Girls High School Aghore organized a function to accord warm send off to Ragni Khajuria, Headmaster of the institution, who attained superannuation. They wised healthy post retirement life to Ragni Khajuria.
PHE Department Driver and Cleaner Union, Jammu Province gave warm send off to Mohinder Singh and Bashir Ahmed of PHE Mechanical Rural Division Jammu and Joginder Nath of PHE Division Samba on attaining supe-rannuation. Devinder Singh, General Secretary of the Union and other members of the union were present on the occasion.