Regularization of 880 Engineering Graduates breaks celebrations in J&K, JKCEGA thanks LG administration
Mudasir Yaqoob
Srinagar, Oct 7: The services of as many as eight hundred eighty engineering graduates have been regularized in J&K with J&K Electrical Engineering Graduates Association (JKEEGA) thanking the Lieutenant Governor administration.
The move has given a reason for celebrations in J&K to the engineers who had been struggling for the fulfilment of demands for decades.
Soon after the announcement by the government to regularize their services, JKEEGA president Nasir Ahmed addressed a press conference in Srinagar, thanking LG administration what they said “dreams coming true.”
“This is a historic decision as no government has till now done regularization on such a mass scale,” he said.
He added that several officials have suffered injustice in the past as successive governments didn’t pay heed to their genuine demands.
“We are highly thankful to LG Manoj Sinha, chief Secretary Arun Mehta and Secretary to Jal Shakti Shaleen Kabra. The entire process has been done in a transparent and time bound manner by the present regime” he said.
Giving details about the regularization, he said that the process includes regularization/ promotion of 70 of Executive Engineers as Superintending Engineers.
One of the engineers said that as a ray of hope, the then State Administrative Council of J&K on 22nd Oct 2019 approved the Regularization proposal of Power Engineers.
“SAC further directed that the proposal for Regular Promotion in the Engineering cadre of the Power Development Department be processed for consideration by the Competent Authority in the Government through the Establishment-cum-Selection Committee, without reference to the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission, as a one-time exception. SAC further directed that the process be completed by 30.11.2019” he added.
On 23 July, this year, the Association of All Engineers of the Power Development Department have appealed to the LG Manoj Sinha to address their demands for the regularization of various employees, filling of vacant posts, and addressing promotion issues.
In a letter addressed to the LG, the aggrieved engineers had said that they were deeply disturbed by the continued neglect by the successive Government in the past towards their future prospects.
