Is a Government employee destined to suffer on account of the faulty and worn out procedures having assumed the status of redundancy, if not because of the whims of the authorities? The answer is to be found in the matter of 1400 “in-charge” Zonal Education Officers and Principals of ZEOs cadre not ”regularised” for the last 13 years. Where are their files and who is or who are proverbially sleeping over them and why?
This can happen, perhaps, only in Jammu and Kashmir as a long period of 13 years is considered insufficient for deciding whether a promoted employee to be regularised or not – seems incredible. Should these employees be running from pillar to post for getting regularised and expend whatever energy and time and attention towards the issue at the cost of their performance and output, those out of the lot still in service? See the obverse of it – in that an employee feeling ill at ease or neglected for no fault in service matters, the basic premise and the purpose, can never be expected to give the output expected from it. An unsatisfied employee is a sleeping non performer as psychologically he or she remains perturbed and concerned about the undecided status and the security of job.
The outcome of such bureaucratic lethargy is that many ”waiting aspirants” have passed away and even after their departing, their cases are continuously slept over. They could not get justice during their lifetime, how come they can get any after they were gone? The administration must know that such cases are providing fodders for employees Trade Unions to agitate which becomes their legitimate right. Why should such instances at all be there is the moot question especially it cannot naturally be the general policy in terms of regularisation as recently, the Government has issued orders of ”regularisation” of Plus Two lecturers but ignoring the in-charge ZEOs who are awaiting orders of regularisation from the authorities, many of whom during these 13 years even attained superannuation. Now, whether this could be called as discrimination as one section from the same Department getting due (regularisation) while the other one is left in the lurch or betrayed, is left to one’s judgment.
There could be cases of corruption, incompetence, gross misconduct or whatever against these employees but on record, there is nothing of the sort and not only all the required formalities are said to have been duly completed but even the vigilance reports from Departmental Promotion Committees sought. Despite that, the issue of regularisation was not touched which speaks for the haphazard, erratic, unsystematic and hazy ways of deciding routine service matters of the employees in many cases. Even if one employee suffers on account of intentional denial of one’s right to promotion, regularisation and availing of other benefits it defeats the very purpose of harnessing the human resources development in optimum and advantageous ways.
When genuine cases are unduly and without any cogent reason kept pending, they assume a status of conspicuousness of something serious resulting in no one subsequently feeling inclined to touch them. Perhaps, that speaks for the cases under reference which, however, does not shut the associate case of who was responsible for all this for 13 long years and why this way or that way, the issue was not disposed of. Strict action needs to be taken against those responsible for such an extreme recklessness, deciding the case of regularisation of the concerned 1400 “in-charges” notwithstanding, now without any further ado.
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