| CAPD department likely to engage 14,000 youth on paltry wages | | Coalition Govt's blackmail of state's youth unabated | | Akshay Azad
JAMMU, Jan 27: At a time when New Recruitment Policy of the coalition Government has changed the lives of state's youth for the worse and those engaged as daily wagers are struggling for their regularization despite putting in long years, Consumers Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) department is likely to engage 14,000 more on consolidated wages.
Sources informed Early Times that CAPD department had mooted a proposal to open around 7,000 Fair Price Shops (FPS) across state and to man these Fair Price Shops (FPS), has proposed to engage two persons per shop.
"The proposal was sent to Planning and Development Department (P&DD) by the CAPD department some days back, which was once turned down by P&DD, with some initial queries. "The P&DD had advised CAPD department to made it clear in the proposal that the person who will be engaged in these FPSs will not demand regularization in future", sources said.
They further informed that after getting rectified proposal, the Planning and Development Department, has recently given green signal to the proposal of CAPD department to open 7,000 FPSs across state and to engage 14,000 youth on consolidated wages.
"On each FPS, one Salesman and one Helper will be engaged on consolidated wages. The Salesman will get Rs. 5,000 per month while the Helper will get Rs. 3,000 per month", sources said, adding that none of the persons engaged would seek regularization in future. They further informed that the FPSs already in operation in the state would be subsumed in the new 7,000 FPSs, while the Government ration depots, were not included in the new list. An official pleading anonymity said that the proposal made by CAPD department and duly approved by P&DD was full of flaws as same was anti youth. "Rs. 3,000 as consolidated monthly remuneration is even less than the minimum wages fixed by the Government. How the CAPD department has fixed Rs. 3,000 as consolidated pay, which is now approved by the Planning and Development department", he said, adding that even Rs. 5,000 per month were pathetically meager. He further said that if the employees engaged under the scheme get paltry wages, they would indulge in pilferage of ration, defeating the very purpose of opening of new 7,000 FPSs. Pertinently, to provide ration in far flung and unreachable areas, the Government has decided to open 7,000 stores across state. |
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