Srinagar, Nov 14, TEN Network | In a significant development, the J&K Law Commission has recommended changes in the new recruitment policy rolled out by the PDP-BJP government in 2015.
Making fresh recommendation, the panel headed by Justice ( retd.)M K Hanjura has called for reducing the probation period of new recruits from existing five years to two years. The new job policy, also known as SRO-202, has come under criticism from different quarters since it was unveiled in 2015.
According to wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), under the new recruitment policy, a new recruit has to undergo five years’ probation period before being entitled to pay applicable to the post against which he/she is appointed.
In its report, the panel has pointed out that probation period of five years appears to be “disproportionate, supernatural, plethoric and limitless.”
“An employee cannot be asked to wend a tortuous journey tottering, or rather, doddering his/her way to register his/her claim for the completion of the period of his probation after a great deal and lull of five years,” reads the report ,which was submitted to J&K Chief Secretary, B.V.R Subrahmanyam on Thursday.
Mincing no words in castigating the previous regime for devising the policy, the Commission has said that they kept the sword of Damocles hanging high on the heads of those recruited under the new policy.”The ruling elite of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir lived a life which even ‘the Vikramaditiyas’and ‘the Mughals ‘would not have dreamed of. They made room for keeping palatial government houses at their disposal with modern facilities till such time that they live and to the contrary they kept the sword of Damocles hanging high on the heads of this set of employees,” reads the report.
“The taxable income of this ruling class all by itself had to be borne by the state exchequer in addition to a host of other amenities and facilities provided to them at the cost of the tax payers money and these helpless employees who would hardly be making their both ends meet had the perks provided to them have been held in a leash,” the report further states.
As per KNO, while concluding the report, the panel has recommended that the employees who have completed two years of probation on the date of the promulgation of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, may be regularized subject to the conditions laid down in the SRO.
It has also suggested that the employees who will be completing two years of probation on any future date may be taken up for such consideration on such dates. (KNO)
