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| Regularization of daily wagers put on hold | | | Bashir Assad
Srinagar, May22: Even though most of the departments have submitted details to the Sub-Committee constituted for the purpose, the regularization process of thousands of Daily Rate Workers (DRW) and Causal Laborers in Jammu and Kashmir is getting delayed which has badly hit the working in the departments as the workers are resorting to agitations. Even in some departments the DRWs do lock the offices in protest forcing the officials to stay away from their offices.
It merits a mention here that the State Cabinet had approved the mechanism for regularization of daily wagers in the year 2009, with directions passed to department to furnish details about the workers, so that financial and legal issues could be sorted out.
The departments were according directed to furnish the details of the daily wagers. Though some departments could not furnish the details well in time, however, it was learnt that most of the departments have already submitted the details. But ironically, the government, despite several assurances made on the floor of the house from time to time, has delayed the exercise resulting in unrest among the thousands of daily wagers and casual laboures working in different departments. But the authorities attribute the delay to the insufficient information submitted by several departments.
"The departments were asked to submit complete information which most of them failed to submit resulting in delay in the process of regularization" a senior official told Early Times on Thursday.
He said that the criteria for regularization of DRWs was provided in SRO-64 of 1994. He said that conditions for their regularization include that he or she should be a permanent resident of state and should possess prescribed academic and technical qualification for the post against which he/she is required to be regularized, should have completed seven years of continuous period of working in respective departments.
Besides, as per Government Order No. 26-F of 1994, dated 31.1.1994, only those Daily Rated Workers shall be eligible for regularization who stand engaged on or before 31.01.1994 and have completed 7 years of continuous service as DRW without any break beyond permissible limits.
However, officials in PHE, PDD and other departments who employ maximum number of DRWs told Early Times that barring few cases, complete information has been submitted to the authorities concerned. They said that delay is now from the political executive not at the bureaucratic level. |
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