Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 12: The Jammu and Kashmir Electrical Engineering Graduates Association (JKEEGA) has sought intervention of Lt Governor Manoj Sinha in resolving their long pending issues.
A meeting of the JKEEGA was held under the chairmanship of its president Sachin Tickoo, and attended among others by Executive Council members Rajeshwar Jamwal, (Sr. vice president), Sunil Gupta, Jahangir Ahmed, Gulshan Bhagat, (vice presidents) , Yash Paul, Vishal Singh Chib (Provincial secretaries), Ankush Sharma, Rohit Gupta, (organizing secretaries), Ankush Gupta, Vijay Sharma, (Secretaries), Parshottam Sharma and Vipul Sharma-(Treasurers), on the burning issue of hundreds of vacant positions in the Engineering cadre of the Power Development Department.
Executive Council expressed deep resentment over the inordinate delay in the filling up the vacant positions which has severely dented the morale of the engineering fraternity. It is pertinent to mention that currently there are 2 post of Managing Director, 4 post of Executive Directors, 5 Chief Engineers, 14 Superintending Engineers, 62 Executive Engineers, 134 Assistant Executive Engineers, 167 Assistant Engineers and around 350 Junior Engineers which are vacant leading to situation where every other person is having minimum two or three charge in the corporations of PDD. It is beyond comprehension as how the public service of best standards shall be met up when an Executive Engineer of Jammu is also holding the charge of Executive Engineer of Udhampur and for that matter how an Assistant Executive Engineer will manage two to three charges of different sub divisions without compromising on the quality of the work. Overall situation is that nearly 750 positions of Engineers are vacant whose job is to address the grievances by listening to public and deploying the staff at the requisite locations.
“While the department and the corporations are embarking on the reforms path like installing the smart meters, it is essential to resolve the apprehensions of the consumers and address their grievances which have accumulated at the Sub Divisional levels because of the inadequate staff and vacant positions,” Tickoo said.
While thousands of crores of rupees is being spent on the RDSS scheme and infrastructure being raised will meet same fate unless there is a proper staffing to take care of the problems that are always going to be there when a reform is being introduced.
JKEEGA appealed to the Lt Governor and Chief Secretary to accord approval to the proposals of promotion recommended by the Administrative department.
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