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Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 05:
In a state already plagued with unemployment, some ministers have re-employed retired officers in their personal sections, ignoring the unemployed and the needy.
This is a blatant violation of the "admitted" norms of the cash-starved state's unframed "employment policy".
Chief minister Omar Abdullah had made a commitment on the floor of the House that the coalition government headed by him would strive to curb the menace of enemployment and re-employment. But on ground, no mechanism had so far been devised by him and
the "think tanks" around him to tackle this problem.Omar had also stated that no extension or re-employment in government services would be granted.
Violating his directives, some ministers have, however, re-employed retired officers in their personal sections.Health minister Sham Lal Sharma re-employed his private
secretary Beta Ram in his personal section in his capacity as a minister.
Manohar Lal, who retired as special assistant to Dr Manohar Lal, Minister of State for Cooperatives, was again given employment by the minister.P N Koul, private secretary to Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir, was also re-employed by the minister after he
attained superannuation.
Not only this, the government gave extension to Rafiq Qadir, deputy director, Archives, after his retirement and posted him as OSD in industries department.
Providing re-employment to retired officers is indeed a serious offence as it leads to the blocking of employment opportunities to the unemployed and highly qualified youth of the state.
Before re-employing the retired "stuff", the ministers ought to have thought for a while that by doing so they were giving the share of unemployed youth to the already employed as the retired officers were entitled to monthly pension for their survival.Also, the re-employed officers were not indispensable. Let the chief minister wake up and nip the evil in the bud as his this step could go a long way in generating genuine employment opportunities for the unemployed and the needy.
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