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| Unlike Eid, no on-time salary for Govt employees on Maha Shivratri | | KPs disgruntled, rue over LG admin’s indifferent attitude | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 2: The Jammu and Kashmir government seems to have once again forgotten the Kashmiri Hindu employees on the auspicious occasion of Maha ShivRatri known popularly as ‘Heerat’. No measure was taken to ensure that the employees would get their salaries ahead of the festival. Heerat’ was celebrated with gaiety in Jammu and Kashmir on March 1, this year.
The practice for other festivals like Eid is that the government orders disbursement of the salaries of government employees ahead of the festival. Even when Heerat’ was being celebrated on March 1, no order or directive was issued by the LG admin, directing the Drawing and Disbursing Officers of the government departments to ensure the payment of wages on time for the employees.
On July 24, 2020, Government of Jammu and Kashmir ordered disbursement of salary in advance for the month of July to the employees of UT in wake of Eid-ul-Adha. An order issued by Arun Kumar Mehta, IAS, Financial Commissioner, Finance Department read, “It is hereby ordered that salary bills for the month of July, 2020 shall be presented in the treasuries on 29th of July, 2020 for advance payment of salary on 30th of July, 2020.
Prior to this also, on several occasions, the government had made such arrangements. However, now when the LG administration is running the affairs of the erstwhile state, it is ironic that the Kashmir’s Pandit community already battling plethora of odds were not made entitled to any such facility.”We were expecting that in the last week of February, this year, we may get some announcement about the disbursement of salary by the end of February so that we could have celebrated the festival with more enthusiasm and joy. But the government and those helming the affairs of the present administration seem to have been adopting an indifferent attitude. All they care about is their personal aggrandizement. A common man has become more or less like a squirrel in the cage,” says a government employee belonging to the Pandit community here.
A senior official meanwhile divulged that leave alone deliberating or discussing the modalities on early salaries to the employees in Jammu and Kashmir on the occasion of Maha Shivratri, the issue didn’t even come for discussion on the table. “You finalize or deliberate anything that comes up for discussion. When you do not even rack up an issue, how do you expect it to get a government consideration or a nod,” the official told Early Times. |
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