Indulges in skill-retardation to a class of employees
Causes disguising demotion to clerical staff
jj correspondent
Jammu, May 05: Distribution of work in any office is based on the requirement of an organisation and availability of the skilled force in a particular field. That is why advertisement for a particular post is made with the qualification and experience required for the job. Vocational Instructors in Skill Development Department are recruited to train the given manpower in different skills, in Industrial Training Institutes and ministerial staff is required and recruited to do the official work, at these centers or in related administrative offices. Why Directorate of Skill Development Department, JK UT deploys the Vocational Instructors in place of the Ministerial staff at the Directorate is a question that needs a serious thought.
R A Fazili is appointed as Junior Instructor (Painting General), temporarily as Migrant Substitute in 1990’s in ITI Bandipora, Kashmir and his cadre is changed to Jr. Instructor, COPA, (VI) on the basis of qualification, acquired by attending regular classes for it, in ITI Srinagar but without permission/leave obtained from relevant authorities while not regularised as a permanent employee, reveal the documents and is attached to Directorate of the department vide order No 528 of 2006, dated 28-1o-2006 by Director, Skill Development to perform ministerial work in Establishment Section of the same office.
Suresh Kumar is appointed as a Librarian in Women ITI Surankote, Poonch, Jammu, on Direct Quota post and is attached in Directorate, Establishment Section since 2015 vide order No. 601 of 2015, dated 06-10-2015 by Director and another Librarian, a fresh appointee at ITI Darmadi, Riasi, Jammu is attached in Directorate since first appointment, 09-2023, drawing salary from ITI Darmadi.
Instructor Fazili and Librarian, Suresh Kumar are drawing pay against posts of polytechnic colleges giving a chance to some phantom employees to draw their salary against their posts at their actual places of postings in ITIs. It means literally 2 persons are drawing salary against one sanctioned post of Jr. Instructor (Vocational Instructor), by leaving the actual place of posting and providing a chance to engage next one there to perform their fixed task.
The staff from Ministerial Cadre whose field of work is encroached upon by these attachments are in a way demoted. Their right to work in their specified field, dignity and performance graph is in a way challenged, though in a disguised way. The department
do have available experienced and professional ministerial staff at Anantnag, Ganderbal, Srinagar or ITI Jammu, Poonch and Kishtwar, but why anyone among them is not ever transferred to Directorate is a question.
(To be continued)
