Irregularities are very common!
- Neglects responsibilities and lacks concern when media plays a part.
- Enquiry” is used as tool to protect blue-eyed by making all factors favourable.
JJ Correspondent
Jammu, Oct 2: Why all the enquiries being ordered by Director or Administrative Department of Skill Development Department have not yielded any result? Why all the officers/officials being nominated for enquiry committees had not given any sort of result so far? If they have given any remark or recommendation and what happened accordingly? Why not they had informed the newspaper exposing such scams? These are very pricking questions being posed for the Director and Administrative Department of SDD and they must answers such type of question so that people may get contended.
The Jammu Jottings once again bringing up news today that the concerned officer of Skill Development, JK UT is a bureaucrat who has the trait of playing hide and seek whenever hears about the echo of irregularities, committed in the department, becoming highlights in the print media. He blocked the phone numbers of Jammu Jottings and deemed “God is in the heaven and all is right with the world”. For last two years the newspaper has been writing about irregularities like fake appointments, backdoor entries, paying of idle wages, irrational attachment of staff, posting and attachments of influential staff in Directorate and Joint Directorate offices for decades, Technical staff assigned ministerial tasks, engagement of guest faculties in place of attached staff, change of cadre effected at Directorate level, hostels sans basic facilities, hostel cooks and hostel boys given other nominal tasks instead of fixed jobs, staff members residing in hostels using kitchenware, electric and electronic gadgets, furnishing, furniture and electricity of the institute with unjudicial use, bosses using government vehicles for personal use consuming POL from government treasury meant for the practical training of automobile trainees, no attention to physical fitness and games of trainees to provide a chance to channelize their energy and an opportunity to take part at state, interstate or national level, no debates, discussions, workshops or seminars, no attention to flourish soft skills, no tours, travels to explore industrial world, libraries in shambles and given in the look after of less literate class IV employees, Institutional stores manned by senior most instructors at the cost of the training program, store rooms looking shabby and as cosy places for chit-chat of employees shirking work, transferring academic arrangement workforce, regularizing IDF payees engaged illegally, making appointments of those who have access to political party-men, without advertising post and referring to recruiting agency, favouritism and nepotism in granting promotions and in-situe benefits, violation of norms and rules, making unnecessary liabilities on state exchequer, misuse of official positions on different levels, last but not the least using tool of “Enquiry” to buy time to make things favourable to protect the tainted employees, but the department never felt it a responsibility to either rebut the allegations leveled through this medium of print or be honest enough to initiate action against the employees brewing corruption.
In the case of a tainted official of the department whose history of service is itself rare among the rarest and stayed for three decades in the Directorate itself touting the officers while having always an axe to grind, the Director was reluctantly motivated to constitute a Committee to enquire into the allegations leveled against the subject in the print media over many years regarding appointment with dubious initial appointment order, regularisation on the (permanent) post not existing, promotion to higher post violating set norms, attachment at Directorate at the cost of trainees admitted in a particular Institute, change of cadre against rules, without required qualification for the post, barring prosperous and genuine candidates from promotion to the post of Senior Steno and at present the one who made several representations to the Director for delivering justice, misuse of position, undue drawl of pay arrears, in-situe promotions, running a fake technical institute that too shown housed in personal residential house being an employee in the same department, creating a fake account in JK Bank Secretariat Branch under fabricated documents of phantom beneficiaries under SDI, grabbing money in lakhs, appointing even the household maid in the department, taking away poplars for timber from the premises of Directorate at Bemina illegally while constructing the residential house, using the Government cabs with POL for private use, taking cash and kind from the innocent employees sometimes smiling and sometimes frowning, the Director was compelled to transfer the official vide order No 500 of 2022, dated: 13-10-2022 and constitute a Committee of four members of senior officers comprising of Joint Director Jammu, Joint Director Kashmir, Accounts Officer Directorate and Assistant Accounts Officer Directorate to enquire into the allegations leveled against the said employee in the daily Jammu Jottings in various publications with documentary proof, vide order No 501 of 2022 dated:.13-10-2022 but being influential employee of the Directorate the constitution of the Committee proved only an eyewash and a delaying tactic as the report of the committee is not in the sight till date and seems a forbidden object for glare from anybody, thus black painting transparency and accountability and the things remained unchanged except shifting of the employee to other office without any assigned task and allotment of post (substantive) and allow to earn the salary sitting idle as have been doing for last 30 years.
Now it is a new (bad) precedence for others who become daring in earning idle wages. The Administrative Secretary SDD and Grievance Redressal Department is requested to take cognizance of the matter as is included in its subjects.
