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| Uproar in LC over backdoor appointments | | PDP, PP members raise fingers at Floriculture deptt | | Navneet Dubey
JAMMU, Mar 7: Raising the issue in a vehement manner in the Upper House, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Panthers Party today pointed fingers at the Floriculture Department for what they alleged back door appointments on contractual and adhoc basis having been made by the Government.
PDP member Ashraf Mir today raised the query regarding appointments in Gardens and Floriculture Department in the House today.
Expressing dissatisfaction over the reply of Minister of State for Floriculture, Nazir Ahmad Gurezi, Mir said, “If they are working for last three years, they will demand for making them permanent”.
PDP member Murtaza Khan sought details on number of workers who were recruited in these departments.
Gurezi informed the House that no contractual/ Adhoc engagements have been made in the department during the past three years, adding the department has engaged 311 casual/seasonal labourers in Kashmir division and 303 in Jammu Division on need basis from time to time for upkeep and maintenance of gardens from 2009.
On the reply of the Minister, Mir pointed out, “One wonders how many of these labourers were engaged from back door”.
In order to pacify the agitating members , the Ministers Nazir Ahmad Gurezi and Manohar Lal Sharma pointed out that these labourers were engaged during your (PDP-Congress coalition) Government. However, PDP and Panthers Party members demanded constituting of house committee in the matter.
Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control department Sham Lal Sharma who was present in the House informed, “During my stint as Minister of State for Floriculture, I want to assure the House that in the last four years no labourer engaged as casual/seasonal labourer was made permanent”. |
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