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| J&K Forest Deptt treated seniority, experience, cadre hierarchy with contempt | | Ex-Minister's fiefdom! | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 17: Despite Governor N.N.Vohra having taken over reins of power; Forest Department of Jammu and Kashmir continues to treat seniority, experience, cadre hierarchy and administrative aptitude of IFS as well as IAS officers with contempt.
Not much has changed. The department still has several senior IFS officers manning junior posts and several juniors enjoying top positions. Secretary Forest Mohammed Afzal carried out a minor reshuffle but desisted from correcting all the wrongs that took take place during ex-Forest Minister Mian Altaf's tenure who, according to several IFS and SFS officers, treated Forest Department as his personal fiefdom and cared little about seniority, cadre management, hierarchy and propriety of IFS as well as SFS officers.
Ex-Minister Mian Altaf's department proposed to the state cabinet for posting 1988 batch IFS officer Roshan Jaggi as Regional Wildlife Warden (RWW) Jammu in October 2014. He was then working as Chief Conservator of Forest (CCF) Jammu. The then Omar Abdullah led-Cabinet agreed without even asking the department to explain reasons for replacing Jaggi within 1 year of his posting as CCF Jammu. He had been transferred and posted as CCF Jammu on September 4, 2013 i.e. exactly within a year and a month from the day he had joined as HOD of Jammu forest division.
He was replaced with 1992 batch IFS officer Asif Mehmood Sagar who was then Regional Wildlife Warden (RWW) Jammu. Sagar who had got promoted to the scale of CCF by October 2014 was given the much needed elevation and posted as CCF Jammu while Roshan Jaggi who was in the grade of CCF was given a posting which is essentially meant for a Conservator Forest level officer. Besides, Sagar was shifted from Wildlife Department after around 2 years and 6 months. By this time, Jaggi had been transferred thrice.
Jaggi was posted as CCF wildlife against the post of Regional Wildlife Warden (RWW) Jammu which is actually Conservator Forest (CF) level post. Sources said that more than qualification and seniority, it was closeness of Sagar with ex-Minister's staff which actually did the trick and also because of which he was allowed to continue at one place of posting for a long time. On the contrary, sources maintain that Jaggi is Regional Wildlife Warden despite being a CCF level officer alongwith two other regional heads, who are both several steps junior to him.
Not only this, Jaggi is lone man among the twenty seniormost IFS officers who is not HOD of any of the 17 wings of the Jammu and Kashmir Forest Department and instead, is working under an officer who is just 3 years senior to him in IFS cadre. 1985 batch IFS officer Deepak Khanna is Chief Wildlife Warden (CWW) J&K. His two colleagues in the Wildlife Department are Regional Wildlife Warden (RWW) Leh Jigmet Takpa and Shuja Hyderi, who is Regional Wildlife Warden (RWW) Kashmir.
Takpa is 1990 batch IFS officer while Shuja Hyderi is a promote IFS officer of 1996 batch. While Takpa is two years junior to Jaggi, Hyderi is 8 years junior and has made it to IFS from the Promotion quota in IFS for Jammu and Kashmir. Shuja is retiring next month and has been working as Regional Wildlife Warden (RWW) since April 2013. Shuja is a conservator level officer while Takpa is CCF rank officer but two steps junior to Jaggi. Takpa has seemingly committed the crime of having been born in Ladakh and qualified the prestigious IFS examination.
He had been posted as Regional Wildlife Warden (RWW) Leh in July 2002 by the then National Conference government. 12 years have passed but Takpa continues to be stationed in Leh and for the reasons best known to the bureaucrats and ministers, he is neither being considered for some other assignment in the state nor has he according to sources, ever wanted to come out of Ladakh. It seems that the post of Wildlife Warden has been handed over to Takpa till he does not retire in the year 2023 i.e. almost 8 years from now.
Jaggi's juniors are also HODs in several departments. Apart from Asif Mehmood Sagar, these include Nisar Ahmed Darzi, who is CCF Kashmir. A 1992 batch promotee IFS officer, sources maintain that Darzi too enjoyed close proximity with staff of ex-Forest Minister Mian Altaf. Another 1992 batch promotee IFS officer Ashwani Kumar Gupta is working against the post of PCCF Eco-Tourism. Jaggi's other juniors who are working on HOD posts include R.S.Jasrotia, S.K.Sinha, R.K.Tiwari and Sarvesh Rai. It is not only Jaggi but several other officers who remained sidelined throughout the tenure of ex-Minister Mian Altaf for the reasons known only to him. |
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