*Reorganization fails to remove stagnation
Rajesh Dhar
JAMMU, Feb 7: Ever since the inception of the Department of Youth Services and Sports (DYSS), it has been following the norms and procedures as admissible to the Department of Education, with regard to induction and promotion in various cadres. Unfortunately, the Department did not have its own rules and regulations to induct, control and regulate even though it had acquired the status of independent Directorate in the year 1973, after the reorganization of the Department of General Education.
However, what is surprising is the fact that the reorganization of the DYSS to make it broad based in the year 2008, has again failed to remove stagnation of the employees in it. Reason? The rules framed for the Department are still lying with the Public Service Commission (PSC) for final approval.
Sources said that the DYSS as per the past practice has been granting promotion of the employees in the District Officers Cadre through ‘stop gap’ arrangements to the senior most Physical Education Masters (PEMs), but they were not granted regularization in this cadre as they did not fulfill the conditions of eligibility as laid down in SRO-83 of 1992 (Gazetted Officers) as the DYSS did not possess any set norms. This SRO states that the personnel ought to be postgraduate in his subject for promotion to this cadre.
Sources added that two new cadres, besides others, were created during the recent reorganization of the DYSS, analogous to the Department of Education. The requisite number of Physical Education Masters and Physical Education Teachers, having Masters Degree in Physical Education or above got promoted to Lecturers Cadre vide Government Promotion Order No. 140-Edu (Tech) 2006 dated 13-11-2006 and Government Placement Order No.60-Edu (Tech) of 2008 dated 25-04-2008, later-on, Physical Education Masters having Bachelors Degree in Physical Education were placed as Zonal Physical Education Officers vide Government Order No. 71-Edu (Tech) 2008 dated 4-6-2008.
According to the reliable sources, Over 100 Officers of the DYSS so far have retired from it as Incharge District Officers or even Assistant Directors as Physical Education Masters only as the Department failed to regularize them in the Officers Cadre in absence of its own rules and regulations, to leave them in the lurch.
“We are not thinking about regularization or confirmation at this juncture as we know that it is not possible without the requisite rules, the clearance of which is expected soon. What is shocking is that the pay disparity of the Physical Education Lecturers and the Zonal Physical Education Officers is yet to be removed by the Government. When the Grade of Physical Education Teachers and Masters is analogous to that of the Teachers and Masters of the Education Department, then why Government has yet to remove the pay disparity or pay anomaly of the above mentioned officers,” said a Zonal Physical Education Officer (ZPEO), while showing concern and expressing anonymity.
Now, on the one hand, the Department of Education has regularized a huge number of Lecturers recently, the Lecturers and the ZPEOs of the Department of Youth Services and Sports (DYSS), on the other hand, are waiting in the wings for the removal of their pay anomaly not to talk of regularization or confirmation.
“The Department is hopeful that the Minister for Sports, Taj Mohi-ud-Din would take the issue seriously and solve the long pending problem of the employees,” said an executive member of the Physical Education Lecturers Forum.
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