Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 23: The employees recruited under SRO-202 of 2015 have urged upon the State authorities for the revocation of this SRO as it was totally against the interests of the working class.
In a press statement here these employees alleged that they have been victimized by this new discriminatory policy adopted on 29-06-2015 by the policy makers of the J&K State. As per this policy, recruitment to different posts was supposed to be completed on fast track basis (3 months) but it took more than three years to complete the process of recruitment in most of the cases. Thus the policy has failed to meet the intended objectives and in fact has affected educated youth of the State badly.
Despite working on the substantive posts born on establishment of different Govt dDpartments and created long back in 1980’s, new employees are only given basic salary and deprived of the allowances like DA, HRA, CCA and unfortunately even annual increments for 5 long years. This is likely to have detrimental effect on our service and pension career and will surely lead to pay anomaly issues in near future. It is pertinent to mention here that Govt is already in a fix regarding resolving the pay anomaly issues.
They said as per J&K Civil Service Rules -1956, every appointee is under probation period for initial two years but SRO-202 employees have been put under long probation period of 5 years in violation of JK – CSR rules 1956 and other recruitment rules.
A similar fixed salary policy enacted in 2011 was scrapped by the State Cabinet vide its decision no. 87/06/2014 dated 21-05-2014 and Govt order No. 156 of 2014 dated 27-06-2014 following massive public demand. The youth of State are already suffering due to different issues in recruitment process like long delays, corruption, nepotism and joblessness and are further getting alienated due to discriminatory policy. The policy also violates the principle of “Equal Pay for Equal Work” by discriminating between SRO and non-SRO employees. With the change of status of the State it is hoped that this policy will also die.
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