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| Wrong” steps put bureaucrat in trouble ** He has allegedly withheld salaries of 10 Xens for 8 months, promoted “blue-eyed” AEEs of general category against reserved catecom quota | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 9 It is the case of a J&K bureaucrat allegedly committing one wrong after the other in his capacity as the commissioner of a department by following his own personal ways and not the norms.
Fifteen AEEs (assistant executive engineers) of hydraulic wing of I&FC (irrigation and flood control) department were to be promoted in January 2014 as Xens (executive engineers) against available vacancies but the process was delayed till June 2014 due to the reason that 10 “blue-eyed” AEEs of the state administration, who figured from serial No 16 to 25 in the AEEs’ seniority list, figured nowhere in the promotion list, a top government official alleged.
The delay of six months was termed totally unjustified by the 15 AEEs. Following their repeated representations to the government, the promotion list of 25 AEEs, including the 10 blue-eyed AEEs, was finally approved by I&FC commissioner Pawan Kotwal on June 26, 2014.
So well-connected are these 10 AEEs that all of them were adjusted in the hydraulic wing itself after their promotion. Of the 25 newly promoted Xens, a total of 19 were adjusted in the hydraulic wing. The remaining six Xens and four others – Ashwani Anand, Nazir Ahmad, Ashok Nanda and Toufiq – who were promoted as Xens in 2011 or so, were transferred to REW (rural engineering wing) and tourism department, the official informed.
These 10 Xens (7 in REW and 3 in tourism department) had no work to do there because the nature of job in the two departments was different from that of theirs. Unable to bear their burden anymore, the REW sent the seven Xens back to the hydraulic wing in July 2014 while the tourism department repatriated the three Xens to their parent department in October 2014. Since June 2014, these 10 Xens have not received their salaries. “They are without salaries and without work,” the official said.
The official said the 10 aggrieved Xens had approached Kotwal several times in the past eight months but he had not bothered to release their salaries. “Their lives have become miserable in the absence of salaries. They are finding it hard to run their families and have also not paid the school fee of their children,” he added.
The official alleged that though Kotwal headed the department being its commissioner, he had not bothered to do justice in this case. “While the genuine Xens are without salaries for the past eight months, the blue-eyed continue to get monthly salaries and are enjoying their postings,” he said.
After allegedly giving out of turn promotion to the 10 hitherto junior AEEs, Kotwal has landed in another controversy. Some AEEs, who belong to different reserved categories, have now come forward with the claim that these 10 posts of Xens actually belonged to them. Alleging that the commissioner had done a wrong thing by promoting the 10 general category AEEs (from serial No 16 to 25) against the posts reserved for them, they have moved court.
The reserved category AEEs alleged that the commissioner had deprived them of their rights by exhausting their quota of promotions as Xens.
The official said since the government had enhanced the retirement age from 58 to 60 years, vacant posts of Xens were likely to be created after two years.
“Kotwal was left with no alternative other than demoting the 10 blue-eyed Xens,” he said and appealed to Governor N N Vohra to take cognizance of the issue and punish the guilty.
The commissioner could not be contacted despite repeated attempts.
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