PDD engineers’ regularization: JKEEGA urges Chief Secretary for EC meeting

Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir Electrical Engineering Graduates Association [JKEEGA] under chairmanship of Sachin Tickoo, General Secretary along with Ashok Kumar Dubey, Vice-President, Rajeshwar Jamwal, Provincial Publicity Secretary, Yash Paul, Organizing Secretary and Vipul Sharma Treasurers today held a meeting here in Jammu and unanimously resolved appealing to the Chief Secretary Jammu and Kashmir for convening of the establishment committee for discussing the proposals of regularization of Engineers of Power Development duly recommended by the empowered committee constituted vide GAD order no-308-JK[GAD] of 2020, Dated-02/03/2020 and vetted by General administration department as well.

In a statement to Ziraat Times, JKEEGA said that it is pertinent to recall the SAC meeting held on 22.10.2019 which directed the proposal for regular promotions of Power development department be processed on fast track at departmental level without referring to Public Service commission as one-time exemption and whole process was supposed to be completed within 02 months by 30.11.2019 (GO No. 191-PDD of 2019 dated 23.10.2019).Accordingly in pursuance to the SAC decision, the empowered committee was constituted vide GAD order no-308- JK[GAD] of 2020, Dated-02/03/2020 .However despite lapse of more than 15 months, the regularization orders are yet to see light of day.

The empowered committee under the chairmanship of Rohit Kansal Principal Secretary Power Development department having completed the marathon exercise of preparing, scrutinizing, examining the regularization proposals of 45 Executive Engineers and 179 Assistant Ex. Engineers as Executive Engineers /Superintending Engineers and Chief Engineers all of whom are retirees from year 2000 to 2018 were recommended to General administration department and after thorough scrutiny are now awaiting for placement before the establishment committee since one month. In this context, the delegation of the JKEEGA also met Manoj Kumar Diwedi Commissioner/Secretary General Administration for expediting the placement of proposal before the establishment committee in the backdrop of the fact that these two proposals are of retires who have retired way back from 2000 to 2018 and many of them are ailing, expired or settled abroad since majority of them are more than 70 plus of age and have suffered a lot on account of the non-regularization since years.

This step of regularization will serve the objective of the SAC meeting held on 22.10.2019 which directed the proposal for regular promotions of Power Development Department be processed on fast track at departmental level without referring to Public Service commission as one-time exemption and whole process was supposed to be completed within 02 months by 30.11.2019. SAC had very strongly depicted the plight of engineering departments which have been forced to run on in- charge system basis and even sitting Chief Engineers across Power Development department are substantively only Assistant Engineers.

JKEEGA therefore appeals to worthy Chief Secretary to kindly direct the General Administration department to convene the meeting of the establishment committee urgently for placing the proposals submitted by the empowered committee for the regularization as per the mandate of the GAD order no-308-JK[GAD] of 2020, Dated- 02/03/2020, which has already been delayed due to the COVID19 Pandemic. It would be a great step in clearing the long backlog of the regularization pending in the Power Development department as the serving Engineers cannot also be regularized till the backlog is cleared.