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| Engagement of DRWs contradicts ban on recruitment | | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Pulwama, Jan 30: At a time when engagement of Daily Rated Workers (DRWs) in different government departments goes unabated despite a blanket ban order of government in place, employees falling under ban period term an agreement with government a tool to break ban order. After lot hue and cry was raised over regularization of 60,000 DRWs of different government departments during NC-Congress Coalition government, then finance Minister Abdul Raheem Rather announced a blanket order vide SRO-64 of 1994 to curb engagement of people as DRWs in government departments.
Rather then said that government has issued instructions to the officers to discontinue forthwith the engagements made in violation of the Special Provisions Act and SRO-64.
He said then said that officers responsible will be identified and Charge-sheeted and the engagements made in accordance with Government order No 239-F of 2005 will be revisited by the concerned departments. Rather then said that various engagements have been made on casual, need basis and on contractual basis in some departments but only four departments namely Agriculture Production, PWD (R&B), PHE,I&FC and Power Development Department have been authorized vide Government order No-239-F of 2005 to engage people on casual, need basis from time to time on Muster Rolls for payment of wages with certain conditions.
He said that engagement of daily rated workers has been banned by the government since 1994 in terms of the SRO 64 of 1994. In case autonomous government Departments like Housing and Urban Development Department, including Local Bodies, Rather claimed departmental action against the defaulters who in an unauthorized manner engaged consolidated/contractual employees. Regarding engagement of adhoc, contractual and consolidated appointments, Minister then said that Section 14 of the J&K Civil Services (Special Provisions) Act 2010 explicitly bans all such engagements with effect from the date the act came into force. He said, however, Section 3 of the Act provides for certain exceptions to the blanket ban imposed under Section 14 of the Act. Pertinently parallel to the blanket ban order of government, according to highly placed sources engagement of people as DRWs in different government departments like Forest, Tourism, Floriculture, Education, Horticulture, Fishries,Rural Development and Urban Local Bodies never stopped.
Sources said all such engagements are usually made on the behest of political and Bureaucratic recommendations in exchange of hefty amounts of money in between people seeking such engagements and concerned officials posted in government departments. Pertinently there is no government policy in place to engage people as DRWs, Casual, Adhoc and need base employees in different government departments.
Interestingly 60,000 DRWs of different governments demanding their regularization over the years according to president Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) Abdul Qayoom Wani also fall under banned SRO-64 of 1994 quota but they are safe.
However According to wani, EJAC has a signed agreement with NC-Congress government to break ban order SRO-64 of 1994 and demand regularization of 60,000 DRWs of different government departments.
"During Omar Abdullah government led NC-Congress government we signed an agreement with government in presence of then Chief Secretary which enables us to demand regularization of 60,000 DRWs and we will keep fighting for our demands in future as well." Wani told early times. |
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