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| Now LG Admin compelling poor class-IV employees to buy expensive smart phones | | 'OTP' Government in JK! | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 7: The Employees Performance Monitoring System (EPMS Portal) launched recently by the LG administration to monitor the monthly performance of the employees of Jammu and Kashmir is riddled with ironies to the core.
Apart from frequent snags, outages and breakdowns, the portal is emerging nonetheless a ruthless and bizarre diktat aimed at further hounding the already crisis ridden employees fraternity of the erstwhile state.
1. Buy a smart phone- by hook or by crook
Nowhere in the country has such a direction ever passed through which a class IV employee has been compelled and coerced to purchase an android Phone that would cost no less than 10 thousand rupees from the market. All this has to be done by the employee only to download an application from the playstore- called ‘Sandes’. This app is required only for the One Time Password that the employee would get for registration on EPMS Portal.
However, there were scores of employees whose economic condition is not as such that they would be able to purchase a costly mobile handset only to get an OTP. “I am a class-IV employee and is undergoing severe economic constraints. I have a family to feed and kids to look after. Why is the government pushing us to the wall? Can’t there be any other alternative for the OTP generation. Why do I have to buy an android phone? What rule and what CSR gives such ruthless authority to the government to issue such diktat,” says a Jammu based class-IV employee.
2. Literacy no barrier
Even the illiterate workers working as peons in various government departments have been directed to fill the progress reports. “Now the government has come with another directive that the section heads can fill our reports on the portal. This has become a new source of corruption in the government offices. We have to plead before them to fill out our progress reports. They sometimes cite official work as a reason for the denial and sometimes simply turn us away for no reason. We have no one to tell this ordeal to.”
3. Frequent snags and breakdowns
The portal is riddled with frequent crashes and even after an employee spends a considerable amount of time to fill in the details and while pressing the submit button, the portal crashes all of the sudden resulting in the loss of the filled-in data. The employee has to start in full circle again, again and again. “The government pays more than Rs 3000 per day to an employee on an average salary. Now days have been wasted on this exercise. I have been submitting my details and helping the sub-ordinate staff of my office since the past two days. I haven’t done any other official work during this period. Now imagine how much working hours have been wasted by this erratic portal,” says Kashmir based senior official. |
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