Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 12: A meeting of departmental representatives of Jammu Kashmir Ladakh All Departmental Clerical Staff Association was held here under the leadership of Nazir Ahmed Bhat, president J&K Commercial Tax Department.
Jeelani Naik, general secretary (JKLADCSA) Kashmir division and Basharat Mir, district president Pulwama were special invitees in the meeting wherein the participants held threadbare discussion upon issues of the cadre and showed great resentment upon various pending issues, especially pay disparity of Clerical cadre and SRO 272 of 2008, unnecessary delay of DPCs of Clerical cadre at HoD level, etc. The representatives felt that SRO 272 of 2008 is spreading like life consuming disease and had created gulf among members of the cadre.
They also sought progress report from Jeelani Naik general secretary JKLADCSA Kashmir division and other active representatives of Jammu division, regarding core issue of clerical disparity. In response Jeelani Naik and others produced detailed report before the cadre upon all issues, including Pay Disparity of Clerical Cadre, SAC training etc and assured that Finance Minister was keen to resolve pay disparity issue as announced by him. He hoped that formal orders to this effect may get issued within days.
They further clarified that they had raised the SAC training issue before the Government strongly and were hopeful that SAC training of Junior and Senior Assistant may get resolved soon by General Administration Department in time bound manner, keeping in view of the stagnation of clerical cadre working out side Secretariat. The matter of delaying tactics adopted by HoDs regarding DPCs of clerical cadre was viewed seriously and it was assured that it will be brought into notice of higher ups for immediate intervene as they had already took it in two departments i.e. Education and Fund Organization and accordingly other departments will be pushed before the Government.
During the meeting, election of District Unit Jammu was held. Gurmeet Singh (president Irrigation Deptt) was elected as District president Jammu, Ranbir Singh (vice president PWD) as district vice president District and Waseem Ahmed (publicity secretary Commercial Tax Department) as Secretary of District Unit Jammu.
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