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JEs refuse to prepare M R sheets of backdoor "appointees"
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6/30/2015 11:49:00 PM
Asif Iqbal Naik

Early Times Report

Kishtwar, June 30: After Early Times exposed the illegal engagement of need-base casual labours in various divisions of PHE Kashmir during the year 2013-14 in its June 17 edition, most of the JEs (mechanical) have now refused to prepare Master-Rolls and attendance sheets of these need-base casual labours (NBCLs), said to be over 43,000 in number in J&K.
As per the details available with "Early Times", most of these JEs are now asking for the formal orders of these "illegal" engagements for providing the attendance in future. These JEs who refuse to prepare M.R Sheets are from PHE Rural Mechanical Division Srinagar, PHE Mechanical division Srinagar and have categorically told to their officers that they don't need these NBCLs for their Mechanical lift WSS as there are already regular employees and PDLs already available and most of them are idle.
On the conditions of anonymity, some of the JEs (Mech) of PHE Kashmir told that they have allegedly been pressurized by one way or the other by their Executive Engineers and AEEs to prepare the M.R Sheets and attendance statement. Some JEs of PHE Ground water divisions Srinagar who don't have lift WSSs and who are attending/supervising the work already out-sourced to private firms have also been asked and pressurize to prepare the M.R Sheets and attendance statements of these illegally engaged need-base casual labors who have no work to do in PHE Ground water division Srinagar other than attending the houses of officers for domestic help. In PHE M&P Division Srinagar loading and un-loading of material is being done through private mates/labours and departmental NBCLs have also no work to do but to remain absent and idle.
The sources said that some Executive Engineers of these divisions also allegedly tried to utilize the services of some office bearer of JE's (Mech) union and other operator's union to pressurize the JEs (Mech) for preparing the attendance of these illegally engaged need-base casual labours. The sources alleged that such union leaders had also been given their share during the engagement of these NBCLs. Most of these Executive Engineers (Mech) are continuously working in PHE,I&FC on deputation from last more than 10 years and are reluctant to go back to their parent department of Public works (R&B). They are politically so influential that an Executive Engineer has given additional charge to one JE (Mech) of Rural Mechanical Sub-division Srinagar Soura to another sub-division of Peripheral Mechanical Sub-division HMT Srinagar to clear the bills of his "blue-eyed" contractors and that too at the fag end of financial year during the month of Feb-March 2015, when the already posted-JE of Peripheral Mechanical Sub-division HMT Srinagar denied to bow and to compromise on the standard of works.
The sources said that in May 2015 the then Executive Engineer of PHE Mechanical division North Sopore was suspended for preparing and furnishing the list of 260 un-paid need base casual labors of his division to the Superintendent PHE Mechanical Circle North in the year 2014. But the other Executive Engineers of PHE Ground Water Division, PHE Rural Mechanical Division Srinagar, PHE Mechanical division Srinagar etc were spared and let off free by the said SE PHE Mechanical North Sunil Gupta despite knowing the fact that these XENs not only engaged illegal Need-base casual labours in their divisions during the year 2013-14 but also allegedly paid their wages. The said Superintendent Engineer PHE Mechanical circle North had also worked as Ex. Engineer of PHE Ground water division during the year 2009 and is knowing the actual number of daily-wagers and NBCLs at that time. The said Superintendent Engineer also allegedly sits on the complaints regarding the misappropriation of flood-restoration funds and work-done on high rates at main lift scheme of Dal-Band Nishat after the September-2014 floods.
These JEs (Mech) further disclosed that the present Chief Engineer PHE Kashmir G.M Bhat also knows the factual positions of illegally engaged need-base casual labours in various Mechanical Divisions of PHE Kashmir during the year 2013-14. He had not acted till now in this regard.
The said Chief Engineer of PHE Kashmir also felt helpless in shifting and transferring his PA/PS Mohammmad Ayub Dar who hold the present post from last more than 13 years and has not been transferred even for a single day and also fails to transfer Shiraj Ahmad HA/Cashier who had worked in PHE Ground Water Division Srinagar for 13 years out of last 15 years since 2002 which is under the ambit of his delegation of power of CE PHE Kashmir.
Most of the JEs (Mech) of PHE Ground Water Division Srinagar, PHE Rural Mechanical Division Srinagar etc express their faith in Minister and MOS for PHE,I&FC that the said minister would come for their rescue and will issue instructions for revoking order of engagement of Need-Base Casual labours in various divisions of PHE Kashmir at an earliest.
And the amount paid to these NBCLs be deducted from the salaries of XEns and AEE and should be remitted back to treasury as has been done during the year 2011 in PHE Mechanical Division South Awantipora, they said.
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