Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 21: High Court today sought compliance of the final judgment from the concerned authorities for giving benefit of third time bound promotion to Veterinary doctors who have completed 20 years of service.
Justice Rajnesh Oswal sought the compliance of judgment passed by the single bench way back in the year 2017 directing the Government to accord benefit of “Third Time Bound Promotion” in favour of the members of J&K Veterinary Doctors Association from the date they have completed 20 years of cumulative service with a period of three months.
Since 2017 the judgment has remained unimplemented by the authorities compelled the Association to file contempt proceedings against the erring officials including Commissioner Secretary and Director Sheep Animal Husbandry Department for not implementing the judgment.
It is in the year 1988 a scheme was introduced by the J&K Government to grant Time Bound Promotion in favour of doctors of Health Services Department and for that matter an order was issued on July 22, 1988. Later the benefit of scheme was also extended to Doctors of Indian Medicine System.
The scheme was also implored for the Veterinary of Animal and Sheep Husbandry Department vide SRO 43 dated 17.2.2004. The Government has granted Third Time Bound Promotion to Doctors of Health department including Surgeons, Specialists, Allopathic doctors and the doctors of Indian Medicine System and the doctors of Veterinary have been singled out form the said benefit which the court has turned down.
Court while passing the judgment said that when the Government deals with public related matters even in distribution of bounty, the democratic form of Government exacts equivalence and absence of arbitrariness and discrimination.
The Government, Court said, need not to venture into any such accord having discriminatory ramifications on other set of stratum. The court declared the denial of “Third Time Bound Promotion” by the Government to the Veterinary doctors as unsustainable in law and accordingly set-aside the same denial.
“In view of the above, let fresh compliance report of the judgment be filed by the concerned by or before the next date of hearing. Registry to send copy of this order to the concerned through e-mail within two days”, Justice Oswal directed and fixed the matter for further hearing on August 18.
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