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| Despite CAG exposure, authorities fail to take up follow up action | | Promotions, appointments scam in agriculture universities | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 17: Three months have passed after exposure of illegal recruitments and appointments scam in two agricultural universities of Jammu and Kashmir regions but no follow up action has been taken so far.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has
Exposed mass irregularities in the appointments and promotions in the two prestigious agricultural universities of the Union Territory.
Highly placed sources said that after CAG's exposure the Union Government has asked for follow up action but there is no further development.
The CAG had observed that the human resources function of the universities was far from satisfactory and was plagued by irregular appointments, favoritism, and inadmissible financial up-gradations.
Lateral entry to teaching positions from lower technical positions deprived the universities of availing the benefits of recruiting meritorious teachers through open advertisements. Extension of undue benefits due to excess drawl of pay, allowances, and entitlements led to financial strain on the state coffers.
The CAG has exposed wrongdoings by the SKUAST authorities in appointments, promotions, and entitlements over the years, raising serious questions over silence on J&K's successive regimes over their affairs.
The CAG report detected that both universities violated UGC norms for the direct appointment of teachers and filled these posts through lateral entry.
"The mandatory criteria for appointment and career advancement of teachers was diluted. Pre-mature promotions, the inadmissible benefit of career advancement scheme, incorrect pay fixations, inadmissible allowances, and entitlements, resulted in an extra financial burden to the government exchequer," reads the report.
The CAG noticed cases of appointments without the adoption of mandatory academic performance indicators, appointments without mandatory NET qualification, appointments by counting inadmissible periods in teaching experience and appointments through lateral entry by irregular up-gradation of technical posts. |
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