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| PDP cries: Don’t politicize recruitment | | SPOTLIGHT | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 17
When the government had put an embargo on the ongoing recruitment process, the opposition camps accused the ruling coalition partners of attempting to politicize the process. However, learning the ire of Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti, it appears that the decision was unilateral and had come from the Congress camp alone.
The government it may be mentioned here had put on hold the entire recruitment process at all levels without giving any reason thereof. However, it was widely believed that the government was probably looking at modifying the recruitment process so as to make it politically accommodative.
Washing hands off any such design, the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti today warned that there should not be any compromise on the established procedure and institutions.
"While speeding up the recruitment process is imperative, it should not, however, be achieved at the cost of merit and fairness or dilution of established procedure and institutions," PDP President Ms Mehbooba Mufti said at a public meeting in Kashmir.
She said utmost care has to be taken that the recruitment procedure does not provide reason for suspicion or allegations that could dent the anti corruption drive launched by the government or seem to compromise its credibility.
"While implementing the proposed employment package, it would be very important that the Government sticks to highest standards of fairness and transparency," the PDP President said and added that the politicization of the recruitments, prior to the establishment of the Coalition Government in 2002, proved highly counter-productive both for the then Government and the society. She said with no transparent and fair recruitment system in place, government jobs had, during that period, become a commodity available either against a price or for reasons other than merit. "That in fact became one of the reasons for the downfall of our predecessors," she said and added that the PDP would not allow recurrence of any such scandalous scenario.
Mufti said the Coalition Government can have genuine satisfaction over the fact that, immediately after 2002, it streamlined the recruitment procedure to a great extent. "Though the desired speed is still to be achieved but by and large the selection process at all the levels of recruitment has been fair, transparent and judicious," she said and added that even the contractual appointments were made through a very fair system which was based exclusively on merit. "The selection to Rehbar-i-Taleem posts was a path-breaking experiment which infused a hitherto unknown credibility in the government system," she said. |
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