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CM not satisfied with Standing Committee report
Recruitment rules for Legislature
10/24/2016 11:16:00 PM

Early Times Report

Jammu, Oct 24: In what can expedite the process of updating Recruitment rules of both the Houses of Legislature for the bigger cause of checking illegal appointments, the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is learnt to have redirected the new set of rules framed by the Standing Committee that was framed following directions by Law and Justice Minister Abdul Haq Khan in August this year.
The Chief Minister is learnt to have raised certain points with regard to inadequacies in some aspects leaving scope for loopholes in the recruitment process contrary to fairness and transparency.
Sources said even as the Law Minister made his Department wake up from 'deliberate slumber' it conveniently chose to be in for several years by issuing directions to finalize the amendments in the Service rules of Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council within 15 days in August this year, the result is far from being achieved after three months to this date. A high level standing committee with members from ARY &Trainings department, GAD and the Law department was framed for the purpose of reviewing the process of finalization of the Service/Recruitment rules of both the Houses, but it yielded no result, sources added.
Sources further said as the Law department slept over the matter since the year 2008 when amendments in the old rules were first sought by the then government for Legislative Assembly followed by the year 2010 for Legislative Council, a final review and new set of rules still eludes.
This Standing Committee was to incorporate changes in the existing rules which are nearly 6 decades old as these were framed in 1959, sources said, adding that while all the institutions and government departments brought about amendments in the rules with passage of time in order to make them commensurate with modern day recruitment process where merit and qualification should be prime criteria for making selections, it is only with the State Legislature that these old rules are continuing. Law department conveniently slept over the matter for certain reasons and it chose 'friendly correspondence with both the Houses all these years as many officers besides politicians got their 'share' in the jobs in both the Houses, sources said.
While these old rules have bred nepotism and corrupt practices in making appointments to various posts in the House, it is the issue of backdoor appointments made even in violation of the old rules that shook both the Houses over the years. Former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Syed repeatedly asserted during his tenure that sanctity of the temple of democracy needed to be maintained by ensuring probe into the illegal appointments, present CM who is alive to the issue is reported to have rejected the Standing Committee's new rules and asked the concerned department to make the recruitment process fair and transparent for entire hierarchy of the posts instead of only lower rung employees.
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