Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 1: The Engineers working in the Power Development Department and fresh aspirants having BE Electronics and Communication have strongly resented PSC decision to debar them from appointment as Assistant Engineer-Electrical in PDD.
The aggrieved Engineers met here today at Canal Road office Jammu and discussed threadbare the issue of advertisement notice issued by PSC for direct appointment to posts of Assistant Engineer (Electrical) and rejection of the candidature of applicants belonging to Electronics and Communication background. They sought the attention of PSC towards the Development Commissioner Power Letter No: DC/PD/TO-II/83/4576 Dated: 20/2/2007 & Under Secretary Power letter no: PDD/V/98/2002 Dated: 22/02/2007 and dated 13/2/2007, according to which BE degree in Electronics and Communication, BE Electrical and Power, BE Electrical and Electronics are degrees related to various disciplines in the operation and maintenance of power system and can be treated at par with BE Electrical degree. Even an RTI reply from IIT (BHU) has clarified that a person possessing Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Communication background can appear in GATE Examination under Electrical category, they added.
It is pertinent to mention that most of the PSU are now short listing candidates on the basis of Gate score.
“Now in 2018, the Development Commissioner Power again constitutes a committee on the insistence of PSC with a motive of favouring the Electrical Engineering candidates ensuring that Electronics and Communication branch is rejected without any amendment in the Engineering Service Gazetted recruitment rules 1978 and tacitly allowing the selection process to go ahead without deciding the eligibility criteria through amendment in rules. The committee has submitted Minutes of Meeting of Development Commissioner Power dated: 23/04/2018 which has put a seal on the ulterior motive by rejecting the candidature of the Electronics and Communication background for Assistant Engineer (Electrical) without taking into consideration that nearly 60 percent Engineers working from Junior Engineer to Chief Engineer level are from Electronics & Comm background,” they further said.
The Engineers appealed Governor Satya Pal Malik to order an enquiry in the issue and modify the recruitment rules to put a transparent seal on whatever the opinion is taken by an independent body like IIT/UPSC.
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