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| Additional salary: Govt reprimands DCs over delay in release | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 6: Taking serious note of delay in release of promised one month additional salary for the polling staff, the government has sought reasons from the deputy commissioners for the delay.
According to reports, the government has written to deputy commissioners, seeking details from them about what happened to the orders pertaining to the disbursement of one month additional salary to the state government employees who had discharged poll duties last year in October.
Sources said the government is likely to order high level probe into the delay done in the process and is going take action against the officials who reportedly threw the issue into the cold storage. "If this is the condition of the order that was issued from the highest office of the governor, imagine what is going to be the situation of the pleas being submitted by the common masses in these government offices. The fact of the matter is that these offices have ruthlessly exposed themselves to the core," says a senior official.
Early Times newspaper was the first news house of the state that highlighted such a delay being done by the state authorities on February 14 with the detained news titled 'One month additional salary a hoax for employees?'. The report had highlighted how despite the clear directions from the government, officials at the district level have turned the issue into a mess.
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 two months 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. "There are also apprehensions raised by the employees that since some government officers have become so used to corruption that if they are not given money, they shelve the file." |
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