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| Polls on mind, both allies taking decisions 'blindly' | | Age raising sops continue to draw flak from general masses | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 5: In divided camps, as both ruling allies NC and Congress 'celebrate' the just announced decisions of raising retirement age of government employees and eligibility age for candidates applying for jobs, both the decisions are drawing flak from a larger section people who look at these steps as desperate bid of both the parties to win coming Assembly elections. In the spree of congratulatory messages, hailing of statements and gratitude expressing messages from within the parties, the one up manship show continues even as common masses are viewing these decisions as doing more harm than any good to a large number of unemployed educated class of the society.
After a miserable performance that led to losing in the parliamentary elections , the coalition partners on Tuesday enhanced the retirement age of its employees from 58 to 60 years and the upper age limit for youths to obtain government jobs from 37 to 40 years. For even a politically naive person, these steps have not been taken by the Omar Abdullah led government out of any concern for both the sections,instead sheer desperation to retain some dithering vote bank across the state.
As always in credit seeking game, as both the parties are desperately trying to project as a big bonanza, experts are ruing the claims contending this has marred prospects of large number of youth waiting to get jobs for over six years. Pertinently, during its entire tenure the government did not come up with any advertisements on a large scale which would have accommodated youth in the government jobs. Instead it came with new recruitment rules that suppressed everything what was due against many posts. This is the mass reaction , particularly from youth who come up with a data of even those who were appointed as mostly under ministerial influences during the last over five years.
The worrying factor is that both the allies which until only three months back were at loggerheads over the issue of retirement age, how and why did an all elusive consensus happen so suddenly few days after both the parties drew blank in the LS polls.
Moreover, what has been drafted under the new decisions has added confusion in terms of government employees' number of years in service. The government has yet to come up with a clear order as whether there will be 33 years or 35 years which an employees on an average would have a span of service.
As the youth look askance and wondering with a number of queries, the GAD also the Finance department is also packed with a huge task of looking into financial implication factor. However, a general impression that has gone viral is that both the partners are now taking decisions blindly without any consideration for anything but polls and only polls. |
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