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| Govt sitting over promotions, regularization of engineers in PHE, I&FC Deptts | | Several posts of CEs, SEs, XEns lying vacant in Hydraulic wing | | ARUN SINGH
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 19: Depriving hundreds of engineers of Public Health Engineering (PHE), now rechristened as Jal Shakti Department; and Irrigation and Flood Control (I&FC) Department of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir of their promotions and regularization, the Government has been sitting over their legitimate right for years due to which deserving engineers feeling cheated at the hand of concerned higher authority.
Sources told Early Times that around dozen posts of Chief Engineers (Civil) have been lying vacant in different wings of the PHE I&FC across JK UT. The posts which are lying vacant are Chief Engineer Ravi Tawi Irrigation Complex (RTIC) Jammu, CE Communication and Capacity Development Unit (CCDU), CE Urban Environmental Engineering Department (UEED), CE JK Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA), CE Jal Shakti Kargil, CE I&FC Jammu, who is going to fall vacant this month, similarly CE I&FC Srinagar is also falling vacant this month.
Besides, six posts of Chief Engineers (CIVIL) have been requisitioned by Jammu and Kashmir Power Development Corporation.
Sources further informed that likewise total 17 posts of Superintending Engineers (Civil) have been lying vacant wherein 7 posts were already vacant including Superintending Engineer (SE) Hyd Budgam, SE WUCMA (Wular), SE UEED Kashmir, three posts have been requisitioned by JKPDC and rest 12 fell vacant after the promotion of 12 Superintending Engineers as Chief Engineers.
They further informed that total 23 posts of Executive Engineer (Civil) are lying vacant including eight posts from Kashmir region and 15 posts of XEns have been requisitioned by JKPDC. Similarly, 114 posts of Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE-Civil) have been lying vacant out of which 43 from Kashmir and 32 from Jammu, they said, adding that around 29 posts of AEEs have been requisitioned by JKPDC Kashmir and 10 posts of AEEs have been requisitioned by JKPDC Jammu.
Sources alleged that although the Secretary PHE I&FC has been asked for posting the engineers on vacant posts by the Government but authority has been adopting delaying tactics as a result many engineers retired without getting their due promotions. “Withholding promotions and regularizations of the engineers has been generating unemployment coupled with corruption as ineligible officers are holding charge of higher posts illegally,” they said further adding that the saturation in promotions in PHE I&FC has become stumbling block for new posts in the department which ultimately leading to unemployment among new generation. |
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