Govt employee termination policy arbitrary: NC

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Tuesday impressed upon the administration to call an end to the Special Task Force (STF) related to employee service termination, saying the measure will push the people towards alienation.

A little over a week after the J&K administration set up a Special Task Force (STF) to initiate action against government employees suspected of activities “against the security of the State” under Article 311(2) (C), the Party Senior leader , and Former Minister Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan said, the General Administration Department (GAD) has issued an order in the middle of ongoing pandemic to dismiss a school teacher who is a resident of Kupwara; an Assistant professor from Kulgam, and a revenue official of Pulwama.

The reckless decision, Choudhary said, has sent jitters across scores of employees who he said are at the front of the battle to combat COVID-19.

“We are living through the worst ever public health catastrophe in the shape of COVID sprawl. The Government should have focused on boosting the Covid care rather than terminating the employees in an elusive manner where the terminated cannot even resort to legal recourse to protect their rights,” he said.