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JKATA expresses resentment on letter issued by Director Agriculture and Farmer Welfare 6/22/2021 11:39:40 PM Early Times Report Jammu, June 22: The Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture Technocrat Association working Committee was held under the Chairmanship of Sh Gurmeet Singh in which the core Committee members including President Vinod Sharma and Vice presidents Harmeet Singh and Rajinder Singh Jasrotia were present .The Kashmir Division President Sh Junaied Shah who represent the Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture United Forum, Kashmir Division virtually attended the meeting . All the members of the working Committee shown resentment on the letter issued by Director Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, Jammu for seeking present place of posting details of Agriculture Extension Assistants from Sr no 149 to 433 for DPC/ OPG purpose vide their order no Agri/DAJ/Estt-1/2021/1228-37.dated 21.06.2021. the members of WC apprehension that it only create force that will be kept for doing nothing. At present there are 02 Non –Gazetted Cadres of Agriculture graduates in the subordinate services of J&K (UT) viz. Agriculture Extension Assistants (AEA) at panchayat level and Junior Agriculture Extension Officers (JAEOs) at circle level (Group of 2-3 villages comprising of 500-800 Farm Operating Families – FoFs). The mentioned 02 Cadres in subordinate service have the same basic qualification i.e. B.Sc. Agriculture Degree and also have the same job profile of Agriculture Extension. The similar nature of duty of the two Cadres requires revisiting the organizational hierarchy by merger of the posts of at the level of AEA, JAEO (NG) and AEO(Gaz) and its rationalisation for optimal output But the resent development is going increase hierarchy and government exchequer thus the JAKATA Working Committee requested Principal Secretary Agriculture Production Department Naveen Kumar Choudhry jee, for implementation the report of committee constituted vide Govt order no 150-JK(AGRI) of 2020 dated 07.08.2020 under the Chairmanship of Director command Area Development in which the Committee strongly recommended the merger of two cadres vide number CAD/2020-21/AEA/JAEO/159-163 dated 02.03.2021 so that the burning demand of merger of cadres of Agriculture Extension Assistant and Junior Agriculture Extension officer can be fulfilled at an earliest The members also discussed the recent circular regarding duties of AEAS and JAEOS vide order number Agri/DAJ/Estt-1/2021/1153-63.dated 17.06.2021 that stop the overlapping of employees and ensure the 100 % availability of technical staff in all panchayats of Jammu division, But nothing is seems in practically and the JAEOS are still enjoying their posts by sitting in SDAO offices .The working Committee demand that the said circular should be implementation in letter and sprit. This circular definitely strength the extension service from laboratory to field by available the technical staff to across the Jammu Division . The other members present in the meeting were Raj Bamral, Satvinder Sony, Sabdesh Khajuria and the Media Secretary Ramandeep Singh.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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