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| Kashmir University: Where favourites bloom | | Retired cop to be appointed as CPO | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 27: The decision of Kashmir University (KU) authorities to engage a retired police officer as Chief Protocol Officer (CPO) is likely to snowball into a major controversy as resentment is brewing among the employees against the decision.
Sources said the move has been opposed by Kashmir University Ministerial Staff Association (UKSA), Kashmir University Officers Association (KUOA) and Kashmir University Teachers Association (KUTA). All these organizations have been fighting against extensions to retired people and they have already conveyed their displeasure to the KU authorities .
The KUMSA has written a letter to the Vice Chancellor Prof Talat Ahmad and Registrar Prof Zaffar Reshi raising objections and claiming that the engagement would result in violation of rules, as this would be second engagement of the retired SP after his retirement from police in 2008.
Initially, after his retirement in early 2008 he was appointed as Director Watch and Ward in the KU on June 16, 2008 by the then Vice Chancellor Riyaz Punjabi for a period of one year. Since then he was given several extensions and the last one ends on December 31, 2012. However, sources told Early Times that the KU authorities are now mulling to appoint him as Chief Protocol Officer in violation of norms. The post of Director Watch and Ward was created by Prof Punjabi to please the retired police officer as he was in his good books.
The KUMSA has threatened strike if the Varsity authorities engaged him again. The sources said, the KUOA has also apprised the VC and the Registrar about the consequences of re-engaging the police officer in the KU. “A delegation of KUOA led by its president MS Sumbli met the VC and the Registrar recently and expressed their displeasure over the Varsity’s proposal to engage the officer” they added.
A senior official in the administration said that while the Varsity is reeling under severe financial crunch such appointments will compound the problem. “It is high time that the KU higher ups should wake up from the deep slumber and ban all such appointments in future to safeguard the interests of the employees and the students,” he said. “Why does KU need to engage people who have retired from other departments almost five years back despite being in financial crisis?” he asked. When contacted Registrar KU said, “I am somewhere else in a meeting and can’t comment on this issue.” |
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