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| Future of CIC operators in jeopardy | | Govt dithers about creating posts | | early times report
srinagar, Feb 3: The State Government has put the future of at least 270 IT technocrats into jeopardy after failing to decide on creation of posts for providing the CIC operators a permanent living, even after they rendered 9 precious years of their life in working for the CIC project.
The Community Information Center (CIC) operators mostly having MCA and BE degrees were appointed by the committees headed by District Development Commissioners on contractual pattern throughout the J&K State to run Community information Centres at block levels. The Centres were established in the year 2003-04 by the Ministry of Information Technology Government of India with modern ICT equipments to bridge the digital divide between the state and rest of the world apart from serving as e-Governance platform at Block level.
After 5 years of operation in every block of the state, the centres were taken over by the state government under Order No. 25 ITD of 2009 Dated 30/03/2009 in conformity with the Planning Deptt of J&K State.
A group of CIC operators told ET that their fate has been hanging in air as the state's Information Technology department and the Rural Development Department are undecided over creation of posts and owning of the CICs.
Documents accessed by ET reveal that some states have taken up the project from the central government and simultaneously created posts for regularizing the services of the manpower engaged in the CICs. As per the documents, in Tripura state the RDD has regularized the services of CIC Operators while as in Andhra Pradesh state IT Deptt has regularized CIC operators soon after taking over the project.
Official documents reveal that in May 2012 Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had directed the Information Technology Deptt and Rural Dev. Deptt to rejuvenate these CIC's and ascertain North-east Model for regularization of CIC Operators. "Now the Information Technology Deptt J&K again wants to transfer these 135 CIC's along with staff to Rural Dev. Deptt but without devising any policy for absorbing CIC Operators who have been working for last 9 years on meagre consolidated pay", the operators said.
The CIC operators have sought the intervention of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for directing the two departments to adopt Tripura State Model for CIC Operators in the J&K State while transferring these CIC's to Rural Development Deptt.
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