| 3 yrs after Govt accepted demand, issue remains unsettled | | No promotion for IT employees | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 13: The employees related to Information Technology services, working in various government departments have no avenues of promotion. They have to retire on the posts, they were appointed. This administrative inertia in the department could be attributed to the callous approach of the government as well as concerned department, which have failed to create IT (Subordinate) Service despite issuance of SRO's in the year 2016.
Employees working in various government departments informed Early times that their first joining in the government departments is on the posts of Computer Assistants, Data Entry Operators, Electronic Data Processing Supervisors. "If a person joins the department at the age of 30, he would retired either from the same post or one post senior to the post", a Data Entry Operator said, adding that it was due to the failure of government to create a separate IT Service. They further informed that several employees associated with IT service, had raised their genuine demand of creation of separate service, at various quarters after which finally in the year 2016, the then state government accepted their demand. "State government agreed to create Jammu and Kashmir Information Technology (Subordinate) Service Recruitment Rules and then two SROs 373 and 374 were also issued", the employees said, adding that according to one SRO, a total of 373 posts of IT were withdrawn from various government departments. "It was decided by the government that these withdrawn posts will be merged in the Information Technology department, after which all the employees dealing with Information Technology services would come under the IT Service Recruitment Rules", they official said, adding that it would also help to streamline the system but after the lapse of three years, the issue has been caught in red-tapism. According to officials, after the creation of the Sub-ordinate Services, the IT department had sought information of all the employees related to IT service working in various government departments, but due to the failure of the departments to send the information one time to the General Administration Department (GAD), the issue was not sorted out. |
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