Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 14: The Jammu and Kashmir Electrical Engineering Graduates Association [JKEEGA] today held a meeting of its Executive Council under the chairmanship of Sachin Tickoo, president and attended among others by Ashok Kumar Dubey , Rajeshwar Jamwal, (Sr. Vice President's) , Sunil Gupta, Jahangir Ahmed, Gulshan Bhagat, (Vice president's) ,MP Singh (Patron), Yash Paul, Vishal Singh Chib ( Provincial Secretaries), Ankush Sharma , Rohit Gupta, (Organizing Secretaries), Ankush Gupta, Vijay Sharma, (Secretaries Media & Grievances) ,Parshottam Lal Sharma and Vipul Sharma-(Treasurers) here in Jammu.
The members expressed grave concern over the non redressal of issues, despite consistent follow up, post meetings with the Principal Secretary PDD from the last three months. The members discussed threadbare the recent communication by the Managing Director JPDCL (Chairman of the Committee on Recruitment Rules-Gazetted/Non Gazetted) vide his letter no MD/JPDCL/Adm/76/2833 Dated-01/02/2023 addressed to Principal Secretary wherein he has clearly projected that 8500 posts (318-Gazetted, 8182-Non Gazetted) out of the existing sanctioned strength of the Power Development Department are vacant and also he has highlighted the plight of the management of these corporations who are facing difficulties in day to day affairs , further he has been candid enough to accept the harsh reality that without proper staff it is not possible for corporations to achieve the targets of revenue fixed by the Government .
He further has also highlighted that as per the committee report constituted vide Govt. order no 164-PDD of 2019 Dated-20.09.2019, 8781 posts (Gaztted-419 and Non Gzetted-8362) were to be created at different levels for running and maintaining the vast power system in the UT of J&K as on date.
JKEEGA has been repeatedly putting across the same argument that Government ventured into the domain of unbundling with an aim to reform the Power sector of J&K and accordingly the committee constituted by Govt. had submitted the necessary things to do so in the form of the report as mentioned in the letter written by Managing Director JPDCL. The said committee after studying the organizational structure and needs of the sector had suggested that 8781 posts (Gaztted-419 and Non Gzetted-8362) are to be created to manage the manifold rise of assets of Power Development Department over the years.
Today even after nearly more than three years of unbundling, forget about creations, existing staff strength is not in place at various levels and 8500 posts are vacant. One fails to understand that despite availability of hundreds of vacant positions at various levels and availability of eligible Engineers for those positions, the proposals are pending at various levels. The following positions are vacant:-MD-2, ED-3, CE-2, SE- 07, XEN -49, AEE-94, AE-125, JE-350.The post of Managing Director JKPTCL has fallen vacant on 31.07.2022 and since then the corporation is headless .The Managing Director heads contract committees and important decisions and financial matters are also hampered.
Despite lapse of 3 years, the Regularization of the Engineers at all levels as per SAC decision is standstill and no sitting engineer has been regularized It is a fact that presently all sitting Chief Engineers are all substantively Assistant Engineers or even Junior Engineers.
The Gazetted Service Recruitment Rules are yet to be notified, further the Worthy Chief Secretary had sought the comments of the department on the Assured career progression for Gazetted Engineers through GAD, however despite lapse of three months, our department has not been able to respond to the GAD so that higher authorities could be apprised that only an SRO needs to be issued as then Cabinet had already sanctioned it in our favour. |
