Abolishing our work has left our families shattered: Self-Help Engineers of J&K

Srinagar: Self Help Group of Engineers Association Jammu and Kashmir has expressed its serious resentment against the government order on abolition of reserving a portion of projects scheme of 30 percent allotted by government earlier through which over 15,500 professional engineers earned their livelihood.

Talking to news agency, KNO, president of the SHGEA, Er Parvaiz Safvi, said that  ever since the scheme was launched as an alternative to government jobs,  hundreds of professional engineers and freshers, and their families, were dependent on the same for years now.

He said that the new Lieutenant Governor (LG) of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, is himself an engineer and he must be knowing how productive and helpful all the professional engineers are who have not only earned livelihood from this scheme but have also contributed in the development of respective areas with innovative ideas.

Safvi said that the decision of General Administration Department (GAD) has not only left the engineers shell-shocked, rather their family members were in deep shock.

He also said that all the self-help groups in district levels have hired people for different office-related work and have taken buildings on rent whose source of income will get affected now due to government’s abrupt decisions to abolish the scheme. 

Shahid-ul-Islam, another member of the self-help group said that the scheme for unemployed engineers was launched by then then Chief Minister of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir late Mufti Mohamed Sayeed as an alternative to government jobs.

Terming the move as deliberate attempt to snatch livelihoods, the Association of Self-Help Group of Engineers said that the government has snatched the lone source of income from the team of professionals, thereby rendering hundreds of families shattered. —(KNO)