Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 30: The Jammu and Kashmir Electrical Engineering Graduates Association [JKEEGA] led by its president Sachin Tickoo, today called on Rajesh Prasad, Principal Secretary to PDD to highlight that most of the commitments made by the Administrative Department as a pre-cursor to the deferment of mass casual leave protest notice, have remained unfulfilled.
The delegation brought to his notice that the scores of posts at all levels from Junior Engineer to Managing Director level which are lying vacant since last more than six months should be expeditiously filled. At present there are nearly 300 posts of JEs,150 of AEs, 100 of AEEs, 25 of XEns, 17 SEs, 4 CEs and 3 Executive Directors, 2-MDs which are lying vacant since months thereby badly affecting the administrative efficiency as one Engineer is manning three charges on additional charge system.
The Junior Engineers of 2009 batch are still awaiting promotions as AEs, whereas, their counterparts of even 2015 batch in PWD/ Jal Shakti Department have been promoted as AEs causing deep mental agony to our workforce. The Executive Engineers whose file of promotion as Superintending Engineer had been sent by Administrative department on Ist Nov 2022 to Chief Secretary for approval, is still lying with his office despite the fact that many officers among them are on verge of retirement.
He said the regularization of the serving Engineers needs a fillip as current lot of all the Engineers including the Executive Director is Assistant Engineer on substantive basis and none of the working engineers is above the grade of Assistant Engineer, therefore, all the impediments and hurdles need to be cleared in order to regularize the services of the serving engineers.
JKEEGA also sought a transparent transfer policy to be in practice as it is being witnessed that those languishing in harsh locations for years are not being repatriated and are approaching the association and the department for redressal of their genuine grievance, however no action has been witnessed on ground.
The association also sought that the Recruitment Rules (Gazetted) Service in Power Development Department be notified as the same had been recommended by the committee constituted for the same.
Senior Executive Council members Ashok Kumar Dubey , Rajeshwar Jamwal, Sunil Gupta, Jahangir Ahmed, Gulshan Bhagat, Yash Paul, Vishal Singh Chib, Ankush Sharma, Rohit Gupta, Vijay Sharma and others were also present.
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