Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 21: Government today constituted a committee to consider the cases of officers holding grade of Under Secretary and above under Article 226(2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service Regulations, 1956, which confers powers for compulsory retirement of Government servants on completion of 22 years of service or on attainment of 48 years of age.
Recently, the Government incorporated several new provisions in Article 226(2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service Regulations and under the new provisions, a detailed mechanism to be followed for compulsory retirement of the Government servants has been defined so that such cases can withstand the judicial scrutiny in case officials declared as ‘dead-wood’ knock at the doors of the court of law against the Government decision.
Financial Commissioner Finance Arun Kumar Mehta is the Chairperson of the committee while as Principal Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor, Administrative Secretary of Home Department, Principal Secretary Housing and Urban Development Department and Administrative Secretary of Department of Law are its members.
The Administrative Secretary of the General Administration Department is the Member Secretary of the committee.
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