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| Pensioners suffer as AG office employees at Srinagar take months together to settle cases | | 'Employees demand money for settlement of cases' | | JEHANGIR RASHID
early times report
SRINAGAR, Feb 9: The Srinagar office of Accountant General of Jammu & Kashmir has become a hub of 'corruption' with the retiring employees being forced to visit the office for the settlement of pension cases that are pending there for months together.
A group of aggrieved retired employees told Early Times that the normal procedure of settling the pension related matters of a retired employee within 45 days is not being followed at the Srinagar office of Accountant General. They said the delay in settlement of pension cases results into a situation where-in pension of the retired employees gets unpaid for months together.
"The set procedure is that a retired employee should get all his pension benefits within a time period of 45 days, but this is not the case at the Srinagar office of Accountant General. The pension cases are pending for months with the pensioners along with the family members suffering on multiple counts," said the retired employees.
The retired employees said that the monthly pension should be released within 45 days of the retirement of an employee adding that the pension files remain unattended for three or four months thereby leading to a delay in the entire process. They said that same is being deliberately under a plan so that the retired employees visit the AG office at Srinagar.
"Over the years it has been seen that the pension cases at the Jammu office of Accountant General are settled within a month while in Srinagar office it takes at least three or four months for settlement of pension cases. The files are not disposed off with the concerned officials raising trivial queries," said the retiring employees.
The retiring employees said that the officials especially the clerical staff raise these queries so that the superannuated employees visit the office. Following this the retiring employees' are forced to grease the palms of staff posted at the Accountant General office and only then the pension cases get settled.
"In simple terms the Srinagar office of Accountant General Jammu & Kashmir has become a hub of corruption with the employees not ready to work without their palms being greased by the superannuating employees. There are many instances of cases being returned after one month even though the same would have been settled through a simple phone call," said the retiring employees.
The retiring employees have urged Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Principal Accountant General, Jammu & Kashmir to intervene in the matter and impress upon the staff of the AG office Srinagar to settle the pension cases within stipulated time and that too without demanding money from superannuated employees. |
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