Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 6: High Court has directed the State to re-workout promotions of Public Health Nurses considering the eligibility of all the candidates as per Rules.
The direction was passed in a petition filed by Koushal Kumari seeking quashment of Order No. 1215-HME of 2003 dated 28.11.2003, whereby private respondents were promoted on adhoc basis as ‘Sister Tutor’ and ‘Public Health Nurse’. Further prayer has been made for setting aside order dated 31.12.2013 whereby the private respondents have been promoted as Public Health Nurse on regular basis.
After hearing Advocate Abhinav Sharma for the petitioner whereas Senior AAG HA Siddiqui for the State, Justice Rajesh Kumar Bindal quashed the orders of promotion of Guddo Devi and Manisha Devi and directed State to re-workout the promotions considering the eligibility of all the candidates as per Rules and accord promotions to all the eligible candidates as per seniority and considering their eligibility.
“It has been pointed out that the seniority list prepared many times does not come to the notice of the members of the cadre, especially those who are posted in far flung areas because of lack of means of communications or difficult weather conditions”, High Court said, adding “this problem can be taken care of with the help of technology with which we are all abreast now. We all use mobile phones and the computers. Connectivity is also not that big a problem though there may be some temporary interruption for some time”.
“The departments concerned should collect mobile numbers of all the officers/officials and also the email ids, if not already done. Prepare a data bank and all communications to the officer/official concerned can be sent by using that mode. Draft/tentative seniority list(s) can be uploaded on the website of the department concerned. If confidentiality is required, it can be password protected, which can be system generated with message on mobile”, Justice Bindal further said, adding “this will minimize the chances of any grievance of non-communication of the draft/tentative seniority list and also non-receipt or delayed receipt of objections”.
High Court further directed that a copy of judgement be sent to the Chief Secretary for appropriate action in terms of observations.
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