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| Secretary Legislative Assembly gives ‘damn’ to Chief Secretary’s directives | | File relating to changes in recruitment rules gathering dust for four months | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 8: For the past four months or so a file relating to changes in recruitment rules in the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly is gathering dust in the office of Secretary of the Assembly. The officer seems to be least interested in making changes in this regard.
Sources told Early Times that some four months back Chief Secretary B V R Subrahmanyam forwarded a file relating to changes in recruitment rules to the Secretary Jammu & Kashmir Assembly for some queries. Since then the file is gathering dust and no headway has been made during this period.
“It was impressed to Secretary of the Assembly to return the file within four weeks but despite lapse of three months the file has not been returned. The deadwood that is working in the Assembly Secretariat very well know that they will face the axe in cases are addressed and there is change in recruitment rules. These people are playing spoilsport in this regard,” said sources. A Notification/Order vide No: SR-10/Elec/59 of 1959 was issued on September 23 1959 by the Law Department of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir State containing “The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Secretariat (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules 1959”. Till February 2019 these rules remained untouched and immune in respect of mandatory updating and revisions.
“Since 2001 the Department of Law, Justice & Parliamentary Affairs had put in place every sincere effort to update/revise these obsolete set of aforesaid rules; however, efforts couldn’t get materialized till date. Finally the obsolete and six decades old rules were repealed but the exercise has so far remained half-hearted,” said sources.
Sources said that new draft rules namely “The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Secretariat (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules 2019” were approved by then Speaker and subsequent to his approval these said draft rules were forwarded by J&K Legislative Assembly Secretariat to the concerned administrative Department vide No: LA/857/ADM/2019 Dated 29/2/2019 for the purpose of issuance of a formal Notification.
“That subsequent to the event mentioned in Para (3), ‘The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Secretariat (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules 2019’ were duly examined by different departments at various stages besides the lacunas/ambiguities detected/pointed out at certain stages were also rectified in consonance with the relevant Acts/Rules and Orders in vogue,” said sources.
Sources said that scores of employees working in J&K Legislative Assembly Secretariat are facing complex and varied impediments in their respective career progression ranging from rectification of pay anomalies, stepping up of pay, fixation of seniority in respective class and cadre promotion to next higher level. Some employees are approaching the age of retirement and are facing avoidable stagnation.
Sources said that Department of Law, Justice & Parliamentary Affairs have sought some fresh clarification with regard to the revision/ updating of “The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Secretariat (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules 2019” from Assembly Secretariat and matter is pending disposal despite lapse of three two months. |
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