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| New government to take call on filling up vacancies | | Raj Bhavan rejects PSC appointments | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 22: After raising queries on the appointment of seven member Public Service Commission panel, including the Chairman, the Raj Bhavan is understood to have rejected the panel which was cleared by the state cabinet just a few days before the elections were announced in the state.
Sources told Early Times the Governor NN Vohra has not given his assent to the controversial appointments which created a flutter in the state as many people were of the opinion that the panel for the prestigious recruitment agency was based on the political considerations rather than the merit.
Prior to rejecting the panel the Governor had returned the file of new appointees to the General Administration Department (GAD) on October 23 and had raised several queries.
The Governor, according to the sources, expressed his displeasure over the way the government had disposed off his queries. " The Governor expressed serious reservations over the manner the Omar Abdullah government had shortlisted the members for the prestigious body and later on forwarded to him for the approval," sources added.
They said the Governor this time around has outrightly rejected the panel and has left it to the new government to take a call on filling up the vacancies.
Sources said the Raj Bhavan had pointedly asked for the annual property statements and property returns and other details about the positions the new appointees held in past ten years. "Raj Bhavan was surprised to see that in case of two candidates even Annual Confidential Reports were not appended with." The Raj Bhavan had asked response to queries in accordance with the Supreme Court rulings as also the Act that governs the constitution of the PSC. "But the government turned blind eye as if the members were to be picked up from anywhere," the sources said.
The Governor has written to the GAD that this panel was not tenable and the decision to pick up the eligible candidates should be left to the new government, which is likely to be in office, by the year end.
Pertinently, National Conference and Congress coalition's Coordination Committee had in early October zeroed in on six names for membership and one for the Chairman. On October 10, the Cabinet had recommended the appointment of Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, Financial Commissioner (Industries and Commerce) as the new PSC Chairman for a term of five years and six members including Wali Mohammad Bhat, retired DG Accounts and Treasuries, P L Lachotra, retired DG Statistics and Planning and Mukerjeet Sharma, IFS, ex-Director Soil Conservation - all three from Jammu; Sheikh Mushtaq, former Secretary Higher Education Department, Dr Tejit Singh, retired HoD Ophthalmology GMC Srinagar and Dr Farooq Ahmad Kaloo, former Director, Animal Husbandry Department - all three from Kashmir.
Since there was no consensus, the PSC eventually became defunct with its last member K B Jandial retiring in November. Chairman S L Bhat had retired in September. |
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