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| Mismanagement delays salaries of 550 employees of J&K Legislature | | | ET Report
JAMMU, Aug 4: Nearly 550 employees of both the Houses of J&K Legislature are without salaries, thanks to mismanagement by the officials.
Sources said it's for the first time that salaries of the employees in both the Houses have been delayed as chaos and confusion has been created by a section of the employees following orders of the government that accounts and financial matters would be seen by Accounts Officers sent from Finance department.
These officers were sent soon after reports of financial irregularities and mismanagement in spending of funds appeared in Early Times.
The Finance Minister Hasseb Drabu took serious note of the reports and in order to enforce some financial discipline in the legislature, the officers were dispatched.
However, they have not yet been allowed to work as is sought to be in their role and responsibility, said sources, adding that both the Houses have been working without these officers all these years and the job has been handled by far less qualified and untrained officers from within the Assembly Secretariat.
Sources said this system of handling financial and accounts-related matters by the own staff is against the rules applicable to departments and institutions in entire state where this work is being looked after by well-trained and qualified Accounts Officers of the Finance Department.
While there is strong yearning from the employees of both the Houses to have a proper, transparent accounts section audited and checked by the Accounts Officer, the move so initiated by the government is being sabotaged deliberately as a result of which the word is going too far that there are two separate laws for J&K government and in the State Legislature, sources said.
Jammu & Kashmir government business rules of the Finance Department clearly says that the Finance Department may make rules to govern financial procedure in general in all departments and regulate the business of the Finance Department and the dealings of other departments with the Finance Department.
However, in both the Houses there are some officers who have been holding charge of accounts for over 10 years and are now reluctant to give it up to anyone else whom they consider as 'outsiders' for obvious reasons.
According to officers in the State Law Department, a matriculate cannot function as Accounts Officer anywhere. "It is a gross violation of rules. An Accounts Officer must have passed the State Accounts Services examination (part I and II). Those at the helm in the past in the Law department had stated this following complaints that matter would be looked into because no matriculate employee can do justice with the financial dealings of an institution like State Legislature. In the first place, the Accounts Officer must have an accounts background so that he is able to handle management of finances effectively," sources said.
While there are allegations galore about financial irregularities in the Legislative Assembly, few years back ex-Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council Arvinder Singh Micky was reported to have withdrawn more than Rs 48 lakh from public exchequer as Travel and Dearness Allowance while the expenditure on fuel has been more than 14,000 litres during his tenure of past four and half years. Besides, Micky, the man from Congress was reported to have made lavish expenses and drawn another Rs 3,99,000 as discretionary grants. |
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