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| Re-employment policy for 'favorites': Ministers continue 'bidding' | | Violating service rules, cabinet orders | | Bashir Assad
Srinagar, July 2: In utter violation of the service rules and tampering with its own cabinet orders, the ministers in the Omar Abdullah government unhesitatntly continue to bid for their 'favourites', that serves their own interests. The bidding is brazen by way of 'managing' extensions in bureaucratic jobs, re-appointments as heads of influential government bodies, or just long tenures as advisors, consultants or officers on special duties (OSDs) after the expiry of their extension period.
While the unemployment graph in Jammu and Kashmir continues to rise, the state government's re-employment policy for 'favorite' civil servants is adding to joblessness in the state . Notwithstanding the commitment of the chief minister that the practice of re-employment of and extension in services of senior bureaucrats shall be abandoned, re-employment of retired government servants goes on unabated and chief minister's commitment is totally invisible on ground. A senior bureaucrat rightly said on his superannuation day that "a government servant is always a government servant" -a statement which could be interpreted well after minutely going through the long list of extensions and reappointments and interestingly the same retired bureaucrat was re-appointed on June 9 as Mission Advisor, Serva Shikasha Abhyan for a period of 2-year.
Number of retired bureaucrats and senior officers re-employed after their retirement is increasing with each passing day and they have been holding key positions in different departments and corporations. Some of them have been designated as MDs, Consultants, Advisors and officers on special duty (OSDs). At least two of them are already passed 75 years of age. The highest paid (Rs 88,000 a month) has been re-employed months after State Vigilance Organization registered a case against him.
Throwing its orders into wind, the state government has, according to the newspaper reports extended the services of retired Secretary J&K State Board of School Education M S Baloria for two months. The officer retired on March 31, 2012 and was immediately given extension of three months which expired on June 30, 2012. Though reports of his second extension were not confirmed by the official sources, however, it sounds strange that the government wide Order No. 500-Edu of 2012 dated 08-06-2012 constituted a Search Committee for selection of new secretary BOSE. The Committee comprising of Administrative Secretary School Education Department, Administrative Secretary Higher Education Department and Director School Education, Jammu/Kashmir was directed to recommend panel of eligible in-service officers for the post within 21 days. And if sources are to be believed the committee has recommended a panel of 7 in-service officers, however, one of the senior ministers of coalition is reportedlystill bidding for the retired secretary BOSE.
It simply means that government hasn't shunned the practice of picking up its "favourite and influential" officials for re-engagement, extensions or re-employments. The phenomenon, which has drawn severe flak from all quarters particularly the unemployed is widespread in different departments and government constituted commissions and other statutory bodies.
This, according to observers, doesn't go well with the state's rising graph of unemployment, with a latest survey revealing that the state has more than 6.25 lakh unemployed youth registered. And on the other hand Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is saying that any move to raise the retirement age of employees from the present 58 to 60 years will severely hurt the interests of the educated unemployed.
Meanwhile, the panel of in-service officers recommended by the Search Committee include Dr. Renu Goswami presently Joint Secretary Publications BOSE, Dr. Javed Iqbal Khateeb, Joint Secretary (Secrecy) BOSE, Professor Satinder Singh Principal Science College Jammu, Professor Nutan Kumar Rasgotra Principal Degree College Undhampur, Dr. Meenakshi Kelam, Jammu University, Professor Nazir Nadeem, Kashmir University, Tariq Ahmad Kawoosa Principal Islamia College Srinagar.
If sources are to be believed some senior ministers are bidding for Dr. Meenakshi Kelam as she has always been close to power corridors, even former Vice Chancellor Jammu University Dr. Amitab Mattue is also lobbying for Meenakshi
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