Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 20: It has taken more than two months for the people at helm to wake up from slumber and issue orders for release of one month salary in favour of employees who discharged duties during Municipal and Panchayat polls in Jammu & Kashmir.
Governor Satya Pal Malik led state administration today accorded sanction to the payment of one-month additional salary to the employees who were deployed for the conduct of Municipal and Panchayat polls 2018. While the municipal polls were held during the month of October the Panchayat polls were held in November and December.
Before the commencement of polls chief secretary B V R Subrahmanyam announced that one month salary would be paid to government employees discharging election duties. However, no formal order was issued in this regard thus causing resentment among the employees who discharged such duties.
Early Times had published a story about the issue on December 14 with the employees saying that they feel cheated since no formal order has been issued by the government so far. They had demanded for the issuance of such order at the earliest and same happened today.
According to the government order issued by the General administration Department (GAD), the Drawing and Disbursing Officer (DDO) shall draw one-month additional salary, wages, remuneration as the case may be in respect of employees as were deployed for the conduct of Municipal/Panchayat Elections, 2018 or both.
The order said the DDO shall draw one-month additional sala y/wages/remuneration in respect of an employee, borne on the establishment of his office only after obtaining a certificate to be issued by Deputy Commissioner concerned will certify in respect of an employee posted in his/her district that the employee concerned was actually deployed for conduct of Municipal/Panchayat Elections, 2018 or both, under a proper authorization/order and performed such duty without any break.
Similarly, the District Election Officer/ Deputy Commissioner concerned will certify in respect of Returning Officers, Assistant Returning Officers, Presiding Officers, Polling Officers, Micro Observers, Zonal Sector Magistrates and Nodal Officers that they were actually deployed for conduct of Municipal/Panchayat Elections, 2018 or both and performed such duty.
Likewise, the Chief Electoral Officer, Jammu & Kashmir will certify in respect of Divisional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners, General Observers, Expenditure Observers and the staff posted in the office of Chief Electoral Officer, J&K that they performed election-related duties during Municipal/ Panchayat Elections, 2018 or both.
Divisional Commissioners will certify in respect of an employee posted in his office that the said employee was deployed for conduct of Municipal/ Panchayat Elections, 2018 or both and performed such duty.
"It is further ordered that in case any employee was deployed for conduct of either Municipal or Panchayat Elections or both, he shall be entitled to only one-month additional salary/wages/ remuneration," the order stated. |
