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Bad News JK withdraws job policy, silent on employees’ arrears.While the J&K Government has withdrawn the stipendiary-mode recruitment policy for non-gazetted posts, there is no clear word from it whether the appointees recruited under the program since 2011 would be granted the arrears. However, sources said, it was unlikely that the employees recruited under the policy during the past three years would be given the monetary benefit.An order issued by the State Finance department said in the wake of the cabinet decision last month, the Government Order (No 257- F of 2011)prescribing fixed salary mode for the recruitment of Class Ill, Class IV and other Non-Gazetted categories, shall be treated as withdrawn from May 21 this year. “Withdrawal of the policy means that the employees appointed under it would be getting full salary from the date of its scrapping,” a senior official said.Unnerved by the defeat in the parliament polls, the Omar Abdullah-led National Conference-Congress government last month approved scrapping of the recruitment policy under which the appointees were paid stipends instead of regular salaries for the first five years of their appointment.The official said the Government was still indecisive on whether the new order should be given retrospective effect in terms of arrears to the already-recruited employees.“This order is confusing,” he said. He said though the Cabinet took the decision over a month ago, the Financedepartment headed by Abdur Rahim Rather is working “secretly” on the matter.“As the Government has scrapped the policy the employees appointed under it should be given the monetary benefits as well and paid the arrears due to them from the time of their appointment,” the official said.Another official said the arrears of these employees would sum up to over Rs 100 crore. “It (arrears) is their right now. They will be getting other service benefits at any cost,” he said.A source said soon after the cabinet revoked the recruitment policy there was an “opinion” that the employees recruited under it should be paid the arrears due to them. “But after the case went to the department concerned (Finance) things seem to have changed. The Government would have otherwise issued an SRO revoking the policy and extending all benefits to the employees,” the source said.The sudden decision from the Government to scrap the policy came after Omar had said he would evaluate his party’s debacle in the LS polls where National Conference lost all three seats in Kashmir to the PDP. The scrapping of the recruitment policy, which was seen as snub to Finance Minister Abdur Rahim Rather, along with the decision enhancing retirement age of the State Government employees from 58 to 60 years is seen as part of National Conference’s ‘mission bounce back’, ahead of the Assembly elections later this year.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 03:14:17 +0000

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