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| Horticulture employees plead for re-organization | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 1: Jammu and Kashmir Horticulture Planning and Marketing Employees Welfare Forum (JKHPMEWF) has urged the state government to immediately accept the proposal for re-organization/expansion of the department.
In a handout issued here today, the forum has pleaded with the government that the proposal put forth by Director Horticulture Planning and Marketing Department M. S. Qasba should be immediately considered. They have added that if the proposal is not considered, there is every apprehension that the state shall continue to accumulate the losses, every year, which may run in hundreds of crores.
Forum has said that the present set up of the department should be strengthened by providing adequate manpower in the shape of re-organization/expansion of the department. It has stressed that the said proposal of the department, which is presently being run by a total sanctioned meager manpower of 413 employees, needs be approved by the government at the earliest.
The forum has said that further delay in strengthening and restructuring the manpower requirements of the department might result in major recurring loss to the growers alongside causing serious loss to the state exchequer. Forum has pointed out that horticulture sector plays a vital role in our state’s economy and at present have annual turnover of more than 3000 crores plus foreign exchange of Rs. 160 crores.
It has stressed that state is single largest producer of temperate fruits in India. The Horticulture Planning and Marketing Department, which has under its jurisdiction whole of J&K as well as few offices located outside the state, has total sanctioned strength of 413 employees, is not in a position to cater to the requirements of Horticulture Producers of our state at their doorstep, forum has said.
Forum has expressed surprise over the fact that 1 area marketing officer with a team of two assistant grading/marketing officers and 3 marketing inspectors have been posted to supervise and visit all distant rural areas of Rajouri and Poonch districts during the “crucial fruit ripening season” usually spread between four to five months.
Forum has disclosed that departmental offices are needed at the gross root level and thus the creation is required to be at par with the production. Apart from above 09 markets, civil and other construction works viz., construction of “auction sheds”, “administrative blocks. Forum has said that in case these institutions are made functional by providing sufficient staff, it shall give a boost to the state economy as well as shall provide a regulated platform to the fruit growers/traders for the Horticulture produce at their doorstep and shall place them at par with their counterparts in other states.
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