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| Principal Secretary PDD assures JKEEGA; Mass casual leave protest on 28th Oct 2022 deferred | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 26: Jammu and Kashmir Electrical Engineering Graduates Association [JKEEGA] today held a meeting here in Jammu as well as in Srinagar under the chairmanship of Sachin Tickoo President JKEEGA and Pirzada Hidayatullah General Secretary respectively in which members of the Guidance Council an apex body of the Graduate Engineers of Power Development Department participated in full strength.
The Members discussed threadbare the talks initiated by the Principal Secretary Power Development department to address the issues listed in the Mass protest casual leave notice issued by JKEEGA to the Government. During the meeting the president and the general secretary informed the Guidance council members that Principal Secretary has shown positive intent and taken a positive note of our genuine demands and after thorough analysis of status of all listed issues, he has assured with strong commitment being administrative head of the department that all the raised demands shall be resolved in the time bound manner.
While expressing satisfaction that as an immediate confidence building measure the proposal of promotion of Chief Engineers by the Establishment committee headed by Chief Secretary J&K shall be immediately be taken up along with the promotion files of JEs and Executive Engineers and adjustment of Assistant Ex Engineers shall also be expedited in the General Administrative Department.
Further the grievance of the PDD Engineers of the delay in promotions, vacancies at all levels shall be filled up immediately at all levels. The Leadership informed the principal secretary that situation has taken alarming proportion with positions of Managing Director- 02 Nos, Executive Directors-03 No, Chief Engineers-05 No, Superintending Engineers-15 No's, Executive Engineers-30, Assistant Ex.Engineers- 94, Assistant Engineers -250, and Junior Engineers-300 vacant since over an year now.
The agreement dated 21.12.2021 between Jammu and Kashmir Power Employees and Engineers coordination committee (JKPEECC) and Government had promised to fill the vacant positions of all cadres through promotions on priority and regularize the Engineers as per the SAC Decision No- 258/22/2019 Dated-22/10/2019 in time bound manner. However despite a lapse of nearly a year the regularization order of serving engineers has not been issued till date. Even not a single recruitment has taken place since last six years post unbundling.
JKEEGA Guidance councils in Jammu and Srinagar after considering the positive assurance of the principal secretary on all the agreemented issues has resolved to defer the proposed mass casual leave of 24 hours on 28th Oct and expressed hope that in a timebound manner preferably in next 15 to 20 days the above listed issues shall be resolved. |
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