Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 19: A meeting of J&K Forest Ministerial Staff Association, Jammu Province was held under the Presidentship of S. Sukhbir Singh President of the Association to discuss day to day problems being faced by the clerical cadre of the Forest department. The agenda of the association included upgradation of the J&K forest Ministerial Staff Association, seniority list of Clerical cadre, conducting of DPC of Clerical Cadre and pending clearance of DPC's, and removal of Pay Anomalies of 5th Pay Commission of Clerical cadre. While speaking on the occasion S. Sukhbir Singh President J&K Forest Ministerial Staff Association said that clerical cadre of the J&K Forest Department is under mental and physical stress due to not finalizing of seniority list and non- promoting of clerical cadre. Most of the Junior Assistants are working on the same designation for the last so many years and are at the verge of retirement. The DPC's are also conducted for the last so many years. He added that the clerical employees remain at the disposal of officers not only with in office hours but also after the office hours but has not been given due attention. The participants strongly stressed upon the concerned authorities to defuse the ongoing frustration developing among the clerical cadre employees in terms of socially, economically, physically and mentally and to remove the discrimination in respect of clerical cadre. . They added that the Clerical Cadre being back bone and pillar of the Administrative Sector needs to encouraged by way of removing Pay Anomalies which have been persisting since long. Since the State Government has already removed the Pay Anomalies of various Cadres, and clerical cadres had been ignored. Speaking on the occasion Madam Surinder Kour appealed the cadre to strengthen the association. Mustaq Ahmed, President Forest Employees Federation Kashmir also attended the meeting and apprised the participants about the Up gradation case. Anita Sharma, Surinder Kour, Avinash Anand, Rajan Singh, Satish Ganjoo, Raman Ganjoo, Manmohan Singh,Vijay Kumar, Ravinder Kumar, Chander Parkash, Sudesh Jan, Nek Mohd, Shivdev Singh Pathania, Suneeta Dhar,Reetu Jamwal , Dharam Chand, Dimple Sharma Jyoti Sharma, Sureshta Sharma, Amit Pal Singh were also present. |