Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 25: The Jammu and Kashmir Electrical Engineering Graduates Association (JKEEGA) has urged upon the Lt Governor and Chief Secretary of J&K UT to implement the SAC decision on regularisation of engineers of Power Development Department.
The Association under the chairmanship of Sachin Tickoo, general secretary along with Ashok Kumar Dubey, vice-president, MP Singh, Provincial secretary, Rajeshwar Jamwal, Provincial publicity secretary, Yash Paul, organizing secretary, Purshotam Sharma and Vipul Sharma Treasurers today held a meeting through online mode, wherein, while appreciating the role of Lt Governor on the issue of regularization and clearing of the back log of regularization in School Education department JKEEGA chose to remind the LG that State Administrative Council in its meeting held on Oct 22, 2019 had directed that the proposal for regular promotions of PDD be processed on fast track at departmental level without referring to Public Service Commission as one-time exemption and whole process was supposed to be completed within 02 months by Nov 30, 2019.
However, even after one and a half year of this SAC decision, the regularization orders of none of the eligible engineers of PDD have been issued till date, most of whom have retired from year 2007 to 2019 at levels of Executive Engineers /Superintending Engineers/Chief Engineers.
It is pertinent to mention that nearly four months of the SAC decision of November 2019, an empowered committee pursuant to the above SAC decision was constituted vide GAD order no-308-JK(GAD) of 2020, Dated-02-03-2020 for recommending the proposals for regularization of engineers of PDD for placement before the establishment committee.
The empowered committee under the chairmanship of Rohit Kansal Principal Secretary PDD having completed the marathon exercise of preparing, scrutinizing, examining the regularization proposals of 45 Executive Engineers and 179 Assistant Executive Engineers as Executive Engineers /Superintending Engineers and Chief Engineers all of whom are retirees from year 2000 to 2018 were recommended to GAD for placement before the establishment committee.
JKEEGA appealed the LG to clear the the bottlenecks in implementing the SAC decision so that objective of clearing the long backlog of regularization of Engineers of PDD is ensured.
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