Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 6: Senior Congress leader and former minister Jugal Kishore Sharma has said that the Special Recruitment Rules framed for filling up of Class-IV posts have been marred with major lacunae, especially those pertaining to already engaged casual workers.
In a press statement issued here today, Congress leader said that inclusion of thousands of daily rated and casual workers to engage as Class-IV employees in the fresh recruitment process is a gross injustice with them.
He said, not only the already serving casual workers have to face a written test for getting a permanent employment but also have to compete with all including the candidates from any part of J&K as the new recruitment rules have brought an end to the division and district specific posts.
Sharma said that offering a relaxation of 5 merit points to those casual workers engaged for five years or more is mere a lollipop and nothing else, instead the government should have regularized around 60,000 casual workers engaged for the past several years in PHE, PWD and other departments.
He said that the Government should not back-track from its assurances to regularize casual workers, many of whom are serving on daily rated basis for more than 10 years, adding that any diversion from the regularization process will be detrimental for the future of thousands of casual workers.
Congress leader said that the majority of the serving casual workers possess limited educational qualification and have gone over-aged due to which they will be at the receiving end in case of an open competition.
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