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| Awaited appointment of sr functionary's kin as PLO comes in way of legal assistants' promotion | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 3: The promotion list of legal assistants in the government law department has allegedly been withheld by a senior functionary (SF) who awaits the appointment of his kin as a public law officer (PLO).
The legal assistants are to be promoted to the next rank of PLOs. Their withheld promotion list was likely to be released after the kin of SF in law department was appointed as PLO. Reason: The release of legal assistants' promotion list after the awaited appointment of SF's kin as PLO would make them all junior to him in service. This, in turn, would improve his promotion prospects.
Sources in the law department said some legal assistants had also moved the court for justice.
Sources said the SF's kin applied for the post of PLO after the department advertised 15 posts some time back. His appointment was now awaited. Only after he gets the appointment letter, legal assistants' promotion list was expected to be released, the sources added.
Sources expressed surprise while claiming that no departmental promotion committee (DPC) meet had been conducted since 1973 and no seniority list issued till date.
Sources said the law officer service was constituted in 1997 vide government order No 1467-LD (Estt), having the hierarchy of junior legal assistant, legal assistant and law officer.
The law department decided to amalgamate the law officer service into J&K legal gazetted service as well as J&K legal subordinate service, the sources added.
Sources said out of 14 posts of senior law officer, 10 were lying vacant since August 26, 2010. "It is surprising that the law department is sitting over the file of promotions even as eligible candidates are available," the sources added.
Representations in this regard were said to have been made to the law secretary and law minister but any response from them was yet awaited.
Sources said the law department had admitted that 41 posts of PLOs were manned by law department. Out of them, nine posts were referred to PSC and 15 were held by PLOs. Ten PLOs were eligible for promotion as senior law officers. Accordingly, 34 posts of PLOs would become available for promotion/direct recruitment and 15 posts of PLOs were lying vacant for the past over an year and a half despite the availability of eligible candidates, the sources claimed.
Sources demanded the government intervention in the matter to save legal assistants from further harassment. |
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