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| Contractual, consolidated appointees put to great trouble | | Bureaucratic hurdles............ | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 9: Notwithstanding the Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather's assurance to the 5700 unemployed youth engaged by the State government on adhoc, contractual and consolidated basis, on the floor of Assembly four years back, that they would be all regularized into service on completion of seven years of their temporary service, hundreds of the aspirants have been running from pillar to the post. It has been observed that only few of them have been absorbed while the files of hundreds of others have been gathering dust even months and years after attaining the point of eligibility.
The biggest reason of the sluggish approach is being attributed to the lack of political and bureaucratic will. A Principal Secretary, who is preoccupied with huge work in several of his offices, has been positioned as the Chairman of the committee in the State Finance Department. Primarily due to his engagement with "more important works", the committee doesn't meet more than once or twice a year.
Even after completing seven mandatory years of the continuous service, the incumbents are subjected to untold hardships and suffering in completion of their documents. It takes their cases months and years to travel from their DDOs to their HODs and finally the Finance Department. Even when the committee meets, only a few of the cases are finalized and cleared for regularisation. Still, it takes months to publish the list in the daily newspapers for seeking objections, if any, from the common masses. Even when the stipulated period expires and there is no complaint, authorities consume several months to forward the list to the concerned departments for issuing the final regularization orders.
This is in gross violation of the Finance Minister's commitment made on the floor of the Assembly that the incumbents would be regularized into the government service on completion of seven years. According to bureaucratic sources, none other than Mr Rather has expressed his concern over the unnecessary delay which has created a stream of favouritism and corruption at least in the clerical halls. Even some Under Secretaries and Deputy Secretaries are known to be extorting money from the beneficiary candidates.
"We prefer to pay Rs 10,000 to 20,000 because if we don't pay our process is delayed for long time. The order doesn't take effect on the completion of 7 years. For example, if I complete seven years on January 5, my case is finalized on September 5 and finally the regularization order is issued next year on Jan 5. That means the loss of 12 months of salary and seniority. It means loss of over Rs one Lakh. So, even if I pay 20,000, I save 80,000. That's the tactics they have adopted to extort money", one of the consolidated basis employees said. He claimed that only the candidates of high political or bureaucratic reference were being spared. "There's no accountability. Nobody asks them why the process is not completed on time and the orders issued with effect from that date", he said. |
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