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| Will police get one month additional salary for poll duty? | | |
Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 13: As the state government has announced one month additional salary to the government employees deputed on poll duty during the ongoing Urban and Panchayat elections, the police department here said that there is no clarification from the government whether they will also be paid one month extra salary or not.
The higher ups in the police department said that till date no such order from the government has been received.
The Chief Secretary of the state B.V.R. Subrahmanyam had announced a month's salary as incentive to employees deputed for election duty. However there was no clarification from the Chief Secretary regarding the incentives to the police department.
One of the top police officials here said that till date they have not received any order from the government in this regard. "Neither we have been informed by the government nor have we received any order," the top official said.
The general opinion of the police forces who are involved in the polling duty is that they should be paid the extra month salary like other state government employees. "We are more involved than any government employee in this election process. Though our Job is to protect people, but government should consider one month extra salary to all those police officers/ officials who are on poll duty," wished not to be named one of the police officials said.
When early times contacted one of the top officials of the home department he said that they are not aware in this regard. "We have to check the order which was issued by the government. We don't know whether the police forces are included in this order," he said.
It is to mention here that the Jammu and Kashmir Government has decided to release an additional salary of one month for those employees who will participate in upcoming Urban Local Bodies and Panchayat poll duties.
They have also decided to increase the pay of Special Police Officers (SPOs).
Before the start of the elections this was stated by Chief Secretary B V R Subrahmanyam during the press conference at Banquet Hall Srinagar.
He had said the employees who will perform poll duty will get an additional one month salary.
The ULB polls are underway while Panchayat polls will be held in eight phases on dates: 17, 20, 24, 27, 29 November and 01, 04, 08 and 11 December.
In Panchayat elections, 5812429 people can cast their vote in 4490 Panchayat Halqas.
The government has also promising massive monetary support to all elected members.
The government had also announced sops for everybody who will participate or help in conducting elections and incentivized the whole process.
So far the government has succeeded to conduct this election. It has not been able to conduct any elections since April 2017, when the Srinagar parliamentary by-poll recorded a meagre turnout of around 7%. Subsequently, the bypoll to the Anantnag seat was postponed and hasn't been conducted . Panchayat elections were scheduled in 2016 and were delayed after the killing of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani along with his two colleagues.
As per the election commission of the state, around 15,000 government officials were required to conduct the elections. |
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