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| Following Govt circular, Jammu based employees rush to valley despite precarious situation | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 19: Consequent upon circular issued by the government to report back to their duties, even as the Jammu based employees left for Srinagar on Monday, they continue to face the brunt of situation in Kashmir Valley contrary to their Valley counterparts who are confined to their homes in various districts. During the past over one week no official worth any name in the administration came to see the plight of Jammu based employees living in government accommodation or the hotels, not to speak of ministers in the alliance government who remained unconcerned for one and all.
Sources said hundreds of government employees from Jammu mostly working with Civil Secretariat returned on Monday in SRTC buses but their families stayed back in view of the acute hardships and problems faced by them due to ongoing turmoil and curfew imposed for many days in Srinagar.
The employees along with their families had come to Jammu few days back as their families could not manage living in hotels and quarters due to lack of even essentials of life like milk, vegetables and ration.
Many Jammu based families due to lack of resources and social connections in Srinagar suffered for want of even medicines and small medicare requirements, sources said adding that it was due to these problems the employees brought them back to Jammu.
However, they have been called back through a circular to join their duties in respective departments, an order which they have by and large followed by making a retreat in the SRTC buses arranged specially by the government to move to Srinagar.
On the contrary, the Kashmir based employees are unmoved and unaffected by this circular , sources said, adding that almost all the employees from Kashmir have been staying put in their respective districts ever since trouble erupted in Valley. Sources further said most of them have not reported back to their duties in the Civil Secretariat as they have a pretext of not being able to come due to turbulent situation and curfew imposed in their respective districts. However, there is also an aspect of indiscretion and abnormality to this gap and gap between Jammu based employees and their counterparts in Kashmir Valley, sources said. While these employees draw HRA from government for living in Srinagar, they rarely stay there. Instead they live in their homes in the districts they belong to, sources said adding, that even those who have been allotted the government accommodation in Srinagar do not live in them, instead have sublet the same in most of the areas where government flats exist.
The adverse and harmful impact of this trend of Kashmir based employees not staying in Srinagar gets reflected during the strikes, agitations and turbulent situations like the present one, sources said. Since they remain confined to their homes outside Srinagar, for obvious reasons they are unable to come to offices even under special arrangements made by the government to run the government working in the offices and Civil Secretariat in particular, sources said.
The fallout of this is additional brunt on Jammu based employees who have no choice than to attend their duties. |
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