Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 12: With reports of job scams hitting the headlines of various media channels every other day, the UT of J&K has earned the most dubious distinction in employment scandals during the last few years.
Addressing a press conference here today former minister and senior NPP leader Harsh Dev Singh said that while the Government failed to fill up the posts in various Govt Departments in a fair and transparent manner, the culture of fake, backdoor and other paid appointments grew by leaps and bounds. He said the recent past witnessed large scale retrenchments, of even the regularly engaged Govt employees, the new UT saw the resultant vacancies being put on sale by the various recruitment bodies through blacklisted agencies.
Pointing towards the much publicised scam in the selection of PSIs, FAAs and JEs in the UT, Singh said that it was the public outrage and fear of adverse consequences that had forced the Govt to rescind the said list wherein crores had been swindled by a corrupt mafia. He endorsed the demand of agitating youth to disengage the APTECH company hired for making recruitments in the UT. The irregular selections of Firemen and drivers made in Fire services Deptt through dubious means was also highlighted umpteen times in the media but the helmsmen have chosen to push the matter under the carpet for reasons best known, Singh said.
In another job scam of gargantuan proportions, the J&K Bank made appointments of around 3000 Banking Associates and Clerks through backdoor which too has failed to invite due attention of authorities concerned despite the issue having been highlighted by the erstwhile State Governor SP Malik.
Singh disclosed that hundreds of backdoor appointments were made in KVIB during the BJP-PDP Govt, with a few of them reportedly rescinded, as an eyewash and a window dressing for the gullible.
He said that the erstwhile coalition rule witnessed scams wherein hundreds of backdoor appointments in H&ME Deptt were made by Chairmen of Rogi Kalyan Samities out of Hospital Development Fund in brazen circumvention of prescribed norms and regularities. He said that the number of daily wagers swelled to 1,10,000 in 2018 from 62000 in 2014 as per a reply provided on the floor of Legislative Assembly thereby providing the most glaring example of misuse of authority and patronized corruption during the BJP-PDP rule. But unfortunately the Vigilante organizations too preferred to remain mute spectators.
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