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| Agriculture Department ‘defames’ female casual labourers | | Puts their number in public domain in connection with sale of vegetable seedlings | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 9: At a time when Director Agriculture Kashmir was delivering lecture on the occasion of International Women’s Day on Monday couple of female employees of the department were ‘fighting’ a ‘war’ for their honour at their respective homes due to the illogical and unreasonable approach of the people at helm.
Sources told Early Times that the department put on public domain mobile numbers of two employees working in the Kitchen Garden in connection with the sale of vegetable seedlings. Since the mobile numbers were put on public domain the female employees received scores of calls from the people who wanted to get vegetable seedlings.
“Both the female employees are casual labourers and they would be asked to leave their job as and when there is some hue and cry over the issue. The numbers were given a wide publicity through the print media with the same getting published in some of the daily newspapers of Kashmir,” said sources.
Sources said the regular employees of the Kitchen Garden section are not ready to share their mobile numbers following which the mobile numbers of two female casual employees were put on public domain.
Both these female employees faced problems at their respective homes with their family members objecting to the calls being made by the people in connection with sale of vegetable seedlings.
The sale of vegetable seedlings on Monday witnessed drama and protests from people since they were made to wait for hours together as the same was set to be inaugurated by a top notch bureaucrat. The common masses had to wait for hours together before they could get the vegetable seedlings.
“Scores of the people had registered in order to get the vegetable seedlings with most of them turning up as early as 8:00 AM. However, these people could get the vegetable seedlings only after 10:00 AM once the formal inauguration took place. But there was more drama in store today,” said sources. Sources said the staff of Kitchen Garden on the directions of the in-charge Kitchen Garden kept the door closed today saying that the sale of vegetable seedlings cannot take place since the stock has been exhausted.
They said that it was only after the intervention of Director Agriculture that the door was thrown open for the sale of vegetable seedlings. “On the other hand the in-charge of Kitchen Garden never visits the Kissan Melas organized by the department in the different areas of the valley. Instead of this the female employees are sent to take part in such Kissan Melas even though there is no need for the same as the seeds are available in agriculture offices across valley,” said sources.
Sources said although the Director Agriculture Kashmir attended the Kissan Mela at Sumbal in Bandipora district couple of the female staff members of Kitchen Garden along with some helpers visited the Kissan Mela at Chadoora in Budgam district. Pertinently, the in-charge of Kitchen Garden was involved in embezzlement of funds at the same place when he was posted there.
The in-charge of Kitchen Garden visits the Kissan Melas only when there is some profit in store. |
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