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Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 13: Forty days on, the government issued an order sanctioning one month additional salary to the employees who performed election duty last year. But, to their dismay, the file carrying the order and the recommendations has gone missing mysteriously.
Employees have termed it as a reflection of how government orders are made to gather dust and how mis-governance is taking a toll in the conflict ridden state. On December 20, last year, the Jammu and Kashmir Government ordered the release of one month salary for the employees who were deployed for conduct of Municipal and Panchayat polls this year.
An order issued by the General Administration Department (GAD) said the sanction is "hereby accorded to the payment of one month additional salary/wages/remuneration as the case may be, in respect of employees as were deployed for conduct of Municipal1 Panchayat Elections, 2018 or both."
However, more than 40 days have passed since the issuance of the order and the employees are still waiting for the much hyped addition wages.
Earlier, On September 25, last year, the governor's administration had announced salary incentive to its employees discharging election duties.
The government announced a month's salary as incentive to employees deputed for election duty, Chief Secretary B.V.R. Subrahmanyam said.
However as the last phase of the polls was held on October 17 with results announced on October 20, the Jammu and Kashmir's finance department is yet to issue any order related to the disbursement of one month additional salary to the government employees who discharged their duties as polling staff during these elections.
Employees told Early Times newspaper that soon after the issuance of the order on December 20, last year, they were asked to submit all the requisite details and documents at office of their respective returning officers within one day. "We got our last pat certificates signed from our drawing and disbursing officers, got the copies of our poll duty orders and lined up in queues to submit these documents at the DC offices. More than a month has passed since then and there inso forward movement. We really wonder whether that was really an. Order or a mer hoax," says a senior official.
There are also apprehensions raised by the employees that since some government officers have become so used to corruption as when they cannot be bribed, they shelve the file. "This is what happened to the one month additional salary order. We couldn't bribe the officials and they just threw our cases into the trash bins," says another employee who discharged his duty as a poling officer in Srinagar in October last year. |
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