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JKEEGA appeals Principal Secretary PDD to redress key issues

Ziraat Times News Network

Jammu, July 26: The Jammu and Kashmir Electrical Engineering Graduates Association [JKEEGA] led by its newly-elected president Sachin Tickoo alongwith Executive Council members Ashok Kumar Dubey , Rajeshwar Jamwal, (Sr. Vice Presidents) , Sunil Gupta, Jahangir Ahmed, Gulshan Bhagat, (Vice president’s) , Yash Paul, Vishal Singh Chib ( Provincial Secretaries), Ankush Sharma , Rohit Gupta, (Organizing Secretaries), Ankush Gupta, Vijay Sharma, (Secretaries Media & Grievances) ,Parshottam Lal Sharma and Vipul Sharma-(Treasurers) today held a Press conference here at Press Club Jammu.

According to a statement to Ziraat Times, while expressing sincere gratitude to the Graduate Engineer members of JKPDD for reposing faith in his team, Sachin Tickoo vowed to pursue all the goals enlisted in the vision document of the organization. He chose to mention that remarkable progress on various counts has been felt by the fraternity during the tenure of Niteshwar Kumar Principal Secretary PDD and many issues like regularization of retired engineers which had been languishing since 20 years have been addressed.

They expressed hope that the scores of posts at all levels from Junior Engineer to Executive Director level which are lying vacant since last more than six months shall be expeditiously filled so that not only the promotional opportunities are provided to the incumbents but also the revenue realization also improves remarkably. At present there are nearly 300 posts of JE,150 of AEs, 100 of AEE, 25 of Xen, 17 S.Es,4 CEs and 3 Executive Director which are lying vacant since months thereby badly affecting the administrative efficiency as one Engineer is manning three charges on additional charge system. The promotion files complete in all respects at various levels are pending in General Administrative department since months now and all engineers are feeling demoralized as many of them are on verge of retirement and many have retired without promotional benefits.

The regularization of the serving Engineers needs a fillip as current lot of all the Engineers including the Executive Director is Assistant Engineer on substantive basis and none of the Working engineers is above the grade of Assistant Engineer, therefore all the impediments and hurdles need to be cleared in order to regularize the services of the serving engineers and adhere to the State Administrative Council Decision Dated- 22.10.2019 which had stipulated that the process of regularization be completed before November 2019.
JKEEGA also appeals to the Lieutenant Governor to pass instructions to the Finance Department to issue SRO for the Assured career Progression scheme of Engineers which had been approved by the then State Cabinet in 2017 and well documented in the State Budget in year 2017. It is unfortunate that the assured career progression was extended to the Police and JKAS services on the basis of the same cabinet decision, but the same was withheld till date in favour of the Engineers of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Further the Pay anamoly of Junior Engineers of 1999 batch has not been cleared despite the Honble court directions and also the issue of entry grade of 4260(5700-10100) of Junior Engineers which has been languishing with the Director Codes since last 12 years is also a cause of concern for the fraternity.
JKEEGA also seeks that a transparent transfer portal which had been claimed to be operational in March 2022, is not operational till date and Engineers who are stuck outside for more than 5 years as well are also finding no way to return as there is a no proper reshuffling taking place in JKPDD since quite some time now and proper criteria needs to be followed in transfers.

The association also seeks that the Draft recruitment Rules (Gazetted) Service in Power Development Department be notified as the same had been circulated three months back for examination by a committee and recommendations thereof.
It also sought creation of the enforcement wing for better check on pilferage and also to arrest the distribution losses. The similar enforcement wings assisted by Police already exist nationwide in all the corporations working in Power Distribution in the Public sector. Moreover the Junior Engineers are not provided with any departmental vehicle facility during night hours and are attending to telephonic calls of the consumers due to ineffective customer call center.
The members appealed to worthy Principal Secretary to kindly resolve the burning issues of the Graduate Engineering fraternity at an earliest so that a renewed zeal is infused among the fraternity which is reeling under stress due to overburdening under additional charge system.

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