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| Employees got both respect and demands fulfilled during previous coalition regime, say leaders | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 20: The NC led coalition government may well have its reasons in not being able to fulfill the demands of employees of the state. But the way it has been conducting itself against the employees is only widening the already wide gulf and distancing itself to the extent that they call previous coalition regime a golden era particularly during Mufti Mohammad Sayeed contending every section and in every heirrarchy the employees not only received due respect but they were heard for every small , big issue.
Two days after the police crackdown on protesting employees who came on roads in support of their unfulfilled demands, the employees today feel a distraught lot and disrespected from all quarters. The employees, particularly of the low income strata feel pushed to the wall with no one , not even their officers ready to listen to what they have been deprived , despite having been promised and assured more than once through properly reached out agreements. They feel isolated and disgruntled and the feeling is getting intense by the day so much so they now start comparing the present day government with previous one but also the leaders from within the ruling National Conference.
"This government is surely not sympathetic towards employees.......if this time it is the young Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who is being virtually blindfolded by bureaucrats and a section of ministers, his father Dr Farooq Abdullah during his tenure as Chief Minister too was unconcerned and uncaring........over the years it is this kind of attitude of NC leaders that people in general and employees in particular feel NC during all regimes has been anti employees except during late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullha's era......", said Shahid Akhtar (name changed) , who works in civil secretariat. Shiekh Mohammad Abdullah is perhaps the only leader in NC who initiated steps towards setting up of pay commissions which were aimed at bringing some parity with central government employees, Shahid said while drawing the comparison in attitude of leaders of the same clan.
The employees also nourish this grouse deeply that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is being grossly misled by bureaucracy and some ministers who do not want employees' interests to be served as it calshes with their interests. "IAS officers have got their arrears and other dues from the state treasuries and it is ironical that employees who should have got thier dues first have left high and dry......government is virtually serving their interests and making its own employees suffer knwoing well that its own employees are like wheels which run the government at different levels", said Majid Wani, another employee who was on fore front of the protests and received bruises in police lathi charge.
The employees say they are being forced to draw the comparisons as there is certainly difference in the attitude and approach of at least the two governments in recent past towards employees. "During PDP -Congress regime not only the demands were settled but the successive CMs sent strong messages across the bureaucracy that government would first care about its own employees ..........they took some steps that proved to be detterence for HODs and bureaucrats that they would be allowed to trample down the employees and work on their whims as far as the demands and general issues were concrened", said a leader of the Employees' union wishing anonimity. This was sufficient but today we lack this rather face vacuum on this front...there appears to be no forum nor any voice which can listen to us, he lamented. |
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