From Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Mar 25: The Cooperatives Department has thrown all the rules to the wind as it has promoted a non-feeding employee to the position of Deputy Registrar. In addition to this, three more officers of the department have been given higher charge in clear contravention of the service rules.
The illegal promotion of these officials has led to resentment among the senior officers of the department since they have been denied their right.
According to the order number 03-Coop of 2012 dated 03-02-2012, Bashir Ahmad Lone, In-charge General Manager, Super Bazar, Anantnag has been transferred and posted as In-charge Deputy Registrar, Anantnag against available vacancy in his own pay and grade.
A delegation of the officers of the Cooperative Department while talking to Excelsior said that the promotion of Lone is illegal adding that the officer did not belong to the feeding category for the post of Deputy Registrar. They demanded that promotion order with respect to Lone should be reverted and a deserving person be promoted as Deputy Registrar, Anantnag.
“The General Manager of a cooperative institution did not form the feeding category for filling the post of Deputy Registrar. The promotion of Bashir Ahmad Lone is a glaring example of misuse of powers since he was In-charge General Manager. Lone was not entitled to be promoted as Deputy Registrar, but as he is the blue-eyed boy he got the promotion,” said the aggrieved officers.
It is not for the first time that Lone has been promoted out of way. He was given the additional charge of General Manager, Super Bazar, Anantnag by virtue of order number 33-Coop of 2011 dated 14-06-2011.
Without confirming him as General Manager, Super Bazar, Anantnag, he was elevated to the Deputy Registrar cadre by virtue of the order issued on February 3, 2012. His name did not figure in the seniority list of Assistant Registrars (Gazetted) issued by the Cooperative Department from time to time.
“The senior officers of the department especially the present Commissioner Secretary have made a mockery of the service rules. Imprudent orders issued by the incumbent Commissioner Secretary during his tenure may land the department in litigations besides demoralizing the senior officials. Officials have been given charge of higher posts despite the fact that they didn’t deserve it,” said the officers.
It would be in place to mention here that Lone’s elevation to the position of In-charge Assistant Registrar (Non-Gazetted) cadre was challenged in the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) meeting held in 1999. The DPC members observed that since Lone was only a senior supervisor he cannot be placed as In-charge Assistant Registrar (Non-Gazetted) since it did not form the feeding cadre.
The committee members in their meeting said that Lone had been temporarily promoted as Inspector in July 1998 by then Registrar, Cooperative Societies pending clearance by the DPC. His case was never cleared by the DPC and instead of retention he was elevated to the higher posts with the passage of time with the latest being elevation to the post of Deputy Registrar.
According to order number 03-Coop of 2012 dated 03-02-2012, three more blue-eyed officials have made it to the higher posts in contravention of the service rules. These officials in their respective cadre do not hold the post substantively, but still then were elevated to higher position.
The order said that Mohammad Ashraf, Assistant Registrar, Anantnag has been transferred and deputed as In-charge General Manager, Super Bazar, Anantnag is his own pay and grade, Jia Lal, Assistant Registrar, Lohi Malhar shall look after the work as in-charge District Audit Officer, Kathua in addition to his own duties as Assistant Registrar, Lohi Malhar and Kamal Singh, Assistant Registrar, Bilawar shall look after the duties as In-charge General Manager, Integrated Cooperative Development Projects (ICDP), Kathua in his own pay and grade relieving Bodh Raj Verma of the additional charge of In-charge General Manager, ICDP Kathua.
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