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| People suffer 57,000 clerks missing from action | | | ET SPECIAL
Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Apr 6
Advanced budget sessions stay ahead of schedule and thrust of work culture to make the effective delivery system seem to have losing charm as nothing is practically moving on the government tables.
On every working day, aggrieved people run from one table to another and from one office to another but nothing is achieved at the end of day –clerks are on strike. When the most vital part in the administrative system –which can be described as cog in the wheel –is missing from action, there can not be any work culture or efficient administration as claimed from time to time.
The government and its various wings have set deadline for the public to follow. From depositing taxes, to paying electricity bills, road taxes, tokens, renewals and every thing, there is a definite deadline for the public to follow. Those not meeting these deadlines are liable to face the punitive actions. It makes things all the more worse when the clerks are on strike at the end of fiscal year and towards the beginning of new –this is the time when people have to pay taxes and settle down their wide array of dealings with the government departments.
As may as 57,000 clerks drawn from all departments are on strike for periods ranging from one month to two and half months. And exactly for this period, the official work is piling up at the government tables and the public is being made to suffer. 57, 000 clerks means more than one-eighth of the total work force in the state. The government has total work force of a little over four lakhs and 57,000 of them have not been working for a couple of months being on protest in support of their demands.
The official works in almost all departments have come to a grinding halt as no files are being processed in view of the absence of clerks. “We had to suffer heavily towards the end of fiscal year as nothing could processed in the offices”, said a leading businessman of the town ruing that the clerks in the Commercial Taxes office are also on strike making things difficult for the businessmen. This business community has been asking for extending the deadlines for paying the commercial taxes.
In view of the strike stretching on all departments, no new purchase vehicles are being registered with the Regional Transport Office. Vehicles –commercial or private –bought by people in past couple of months are on the roads without registration numbers. This is making things difficult for all –owners, security forces, traffic police, financing banks and insurers.
Ever since the clerks have gone on strike, the state Cabinet has met at four times but this issue never appeared on the discussion agenda. The government is ye to launch any course of negotiations with the striking clerks to resolve the crisis even as the general people continue to suffer. |
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