Are CBI & ACB watching?
- It is total mockery, backdoor appointee Er Firdous Ahmed Qazi eyeing on Superintending Engineer’s post in JMC.
- The backdoor appointee Er Firdous Ahmed Qazi is so powerful that Commissioner & Joint Commissioner (A) JMC have become helpless before him and recommended his case for promotion.
JJ CORRESPONDENT
Jammu, May 4: Firdous Ahmed Qazi, a backdoor appointee of Science and Technology Department, is all set to be elevated to the post of Superintending Engineer, Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), the weak officers of Corporation has forwarded his case with recommendation of promotion to the Administrative Department of Housing and Urban Development Department.
Qazi in his detail of previous posting, sent to the higher authorities for promotion, has categorically mentioned about the beginning of his service in the Science and Technology Department, Research Assistant, but he did not mention that he was engaged as a consolidated worker.
Acting on the representation made by Qazi for his promotion dated 16-04-2022, the Joint Commissioner (A) with the direction of Commissioner JMC vide letter no JMC/Estt/S/74-75, dated 23-04-2022 requested to Principal Secretary, Housing & Urban Development Department for “promotion/placement of Er Firdous Ahmed Qazi as I/C Superintending Engineer”.
Jammu Jottings on its August 20, 2021 edition had carried a detailed story regarding the backdoor appointment of Firdous Ahmed Qazi, but no one bothered about it. On November 23, 2021, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that nearly 2.5 lakh Govt Employees in J&K are back door appointees, among 5 lakh Govt employees, but unfortunately, no action has been taken against the Blacksheep whose misdeeds are in public domain already. The local media of Jammu have raised many cases of backdoor appointments with evidence but the government agencies remained as mute spectators.
CBI or the ACB should take up the investigation over backdoor appointments, especially, when the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has expressed regret over the issue.
Firdous Ahmed Qazi, was initially appointed as Research Assistant on consolidated basis through a backdoor for a period of three months by then Director Science and Technology Civil Secretariat Srinagar, the official reached to the post of Executive Engineer in JMC and likely to be promoted as SE.
“Qazi appointed through the back door under the patronage of his relatives in 1993, was further promoted illegally step-by-step. He was appointed as Research Assistant on consolidated basis @ 3000 per month for a period of three months by Director Science and Technology Civil Secretariat Srinagar vide order number ST/Adm/110 of 1993 dated 12-07-1993. After a period of three months’ he was regularised in the pay scale of 2000-60/2300/EB/75/3200/100/3500 wide order number ST/ Camp/ 92 dated 04-10-1993 and placed on probation for a period of one year with effect from 01-07-1993”, documents available with the Jammu Jottings divulge.
“The official was promoted as a Research Assistant in the pay scale of 2125/75-2800-EB-100-3600 vide order number ST/ Adm /9 of 1994 dated 31-01-1994 and after a lapse of one year the official was regularised in the pay scale of 2125/3600 from the date of his initial appointment with effect from 17-03-1993 and huge amount of arrears were drawn fraudulently, directly from the state exchequer”, said a source aware of entire plot of story for this backdoor appointment.
“It is surprising to note that within a period of one year the official vide order number 19/ ST of 1995 dated 20-03-1995, was regularised in the pay scale of Rs 2125/3600 from the date of his first appointment without any approval of the departmental promotion committee and arrears were drawn by the Science and Technology department in his favour and senior aspirants were put behind the darkness with hue and cry”, informed the source.
“The official two years got three promotions and after a period of one year the official was sent to Housing and Urban Development Department on deputation wide number 11/ST/Adm of 1996 dated 14/02/1996 of S&T (C), read with government order number 48/H&UD/LSG of 1996 dated 19-02-1996 without any concurrence of General Administration Department (GAD)”, sources informed.
“Since Science and Technology Department was not competent to issue the deputation order without concurrence of GAD, the departmental engineers approached to the then concerned Commissioner/Secretary, H&UD against the said order, who happens to be very close to the official”, sources said, adding that the official was regularised in H&UDD, got promotions through backdoor channels in this department as well. “Due to his connections with politicians and the bureaucrats no one dared to raise his/her voice against the official and anti-graft agencies under political regimes couldn’t do much, now things have changed and the agencies should act prior to his retirement”, said an official of the H&UDD.
