Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 5: Jammu and Kashmir Electrical Engineering Graduates Association (JKEEGA) today appealed Governor Satya Pal Malik to expedite the regularization process of engineers of Power Development Department.
The plea was made by the Association during its executive body meeting held at the Association Office, Panama Chowk, under the chairmanship of Harvrinder Singh, president JKEEGA. The meeting discussed the burning issue pertaining to the regularization of the engineers.
The speakers said that for last 18 years regularization of the engineers is pending with the Administrative Department as the administration is placing/promoting the engineers to the next rank only on adhoc and stop-gap arrangements at the time of promotions which has caused frustration and distress among the officers of the department.
“Development Commissioner (Power), Chief Engineers, Superintending Engineers, Executive Engineers and Assistant Executive Engineers are superannuated in the grades of Junior Engineers or at the most Assistant Engineers which speaks volumes about the total indifference and humiliating treatment to the services rendered by them spreading over decades,” they said.
“Not only this but also serving senior engineers such as Chief Engineers, Superintending Engineers, Executive Engineers, Assistant Executive Engineers are drawing salaries of either Junior Engineers or Assistant Engineers at the maximum,” the meeting observed, adding that the loss, thus, is accruing with passage of time.
The speakers said that it is very unfortunate that in the past some regularization have taken place where officers were regularized when they were no more, thereby adding agony to despair. “The working conditions of employees of PDD can be gauged from the very fact that the engineers appointed as Junior Engineers in 1986 are still working on substantive grade of Junior Engineer,” they added.
The members emphasized that the regularization of engineers to the post where they are putting in their services shall be done on priority so that the pension benefits of engineers are not culminated and they be free from the taboo of adhocism.
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