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| PDDs Sub-division Pattan showers undue favours | | Aggrieved candidates cry for justice | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 1: Exchanging favours for money is not new here, but what is new in the second-most corrupt state is that jobs are bartered away for money so brazenly that a single select list has as many as four sons of a single person as beneficiaries.
The list of need-based labourers prepared recently by Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE), Power Development Department (PDD), Sub-division Pattan, Division Sumbal, has several such discrepancies.
A delegation of aggrieved candidates, who have been working with the said Sub-division for years but have been left out in the new list, allege that the concerned AEE Shafqat Sultan has brazenly favoured some of his choicest people leaving out the deserving ones.
Showing the select-list which has now been forwarded to the Executive Engineer, Division Sumbal, Mohammad Shafi Mir, the delegation added that certain people have been included in the list just to appease some political bosses, while others have made it to the list just by greasing the palms of the concerned AEE.
According to the list duly signed by the AEE, those figuring at serial number 1 (Tariq Ahmad Bhat), 2 (Hilal Ahmad Bhat), 3 (Manzoor Ahmad Bhat) and 18 (Bilal Ahmad Bhat) are the four sons of one Gulla Bhat.
Similarly those at serial number 10, 11, 12, 16 and 17 are again from a same family. While serial number 10 (Iqbal Bhat) and serial number 16 (Ghulam Ahmad Bhat) are the two sons of Abdul Ahad Bhat, those at serial number 11 (Waseem Ahmad Bhat) and serial number 12 (Naseer Ahmad Bhat) are the two sons of Abdul Rehman Bhat.
Interestingly, all these beneficiaries, as their surname Bhat would testify, are the children of the same family, so are the ones at serial number 19 (Manzoor Ahmad Bhat) and 21 (Abdul Rashid Bhat).
The aggrieved candidates said those who have been working with the department for years as casual labourers on need-basis have been left out just to benefit a few families who are not only politically well-connected but also wield good influence even in the department. They said since these lists of need-based laborers form the basis for their subsequent absorption in the department as permanent employees, the list thus prepared has marred their career prospects.
They also alleged that last year also a similar list was prepared by the then AEE, but subsequently the same was cancelled when it was leaked to the media.
Demanding action against the concerned AEE, whom they alleged of having taken Rs 100,000 from each "undeserving beneficiary", the aggrieved candidates appealed the Chief Minister, who hold the power portfolio, to personally look into the matter and save them from this injustice.
Executive Engineer Mohammad Shafi Mir when contacted by KNS pleaded ignorance regarding the issue saying he knew nothing about the list.
"I have no knowledge whatsoever regarding the list," he said.
Mir, however, he was quick to add that the concerned AEE was the right person to get a word from.
KNS did try to get a first hand reaction from the concerned AEE, but he did not pick up the phone.
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