Srinagar, Feb 14 (KNS): Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Ghulam Nabi Azad wrote separate letters to Home Minister Amit Shah and Minister of Health and family welfare Dr. Harsh Vadraha sought abolition of SRO 202. (KNS).
In the letter, he wrote that SRO 202 dated 30th June, 2015 issued by General Administration Department, of Jammu & Kashmir, notifying Jammu & Kashmir Special Recruitment Rules 2015.
“These Rules prescribe that a person appointed shall be on a probation of 5 years and during these 5 years the appointee shall be entitled to only the basis pay and not entitled to any of the allowances. The standard recruitment rules only provide for 2 years of probation and thus this provision in SRO 202 is discriminatory. Denial of due increment will also have detrimental effect on the service and pension of the appointee and will lead to pay anomaly in future,” he wrote.
“The application of these rules since 2015 is causing a great unrest among the youth and Govt, employees of Jammu & Kashmir. It is, therefore, requested that you may kindly personally look into the matter and get the rules appropriately amended so that the newly appointed employees of Jammu & Kashmir Govt, are not placed at a disadvantageous position vis-a-vis other State Govt, and Central Govt, employees,” Azad wrote.
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“It is heartening to see that the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt, of India, had approved the proposal for two new medical colleges at Leh & Udhampur, in the erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir under Centrally Sponsored Scheme for a total cost of Rs.325 crores each vide letter dated 4th October, 2019,” he added.
“You may recall that during my tenure as Health Minister, five new medical colleges were approved by the Ministry for Jammu & Kashmir to be established in Anantnag, Ooda, Baramulla, Kathua and Rajouri at a total cost of Rs.189 crores each under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme. The project of establishment of all these medical colleges is at advanced stage of completion but is hindered due to lack of funds mainly because of the escalation of cost. This is also indicated by the difference in the cost of new medical colleges sanctioned now and those sanctioned earlier,” he said.
“In order to ensure that the project of establishment of the earlier five medical colleges is completed at the earliest, it is requested that the Ministry may kindly approve sanction of appropriate amount of addtional funds for this purpose,” he added. (KNS).