Kashmir’s Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) known as the federal government’s transfer to abolish SRO-43, beneath which a authorities job is supplied to the following of kin of a deceased authorities worker on compassionate grounds, arbitrary and unjustified.

EJAC president Mohd Rafique Rather mentioned that the information had come as a shock for the federal government workers in Jammu and Kashmir. “We receive anti-employee dictates on a day-to-day basis which is causing us anxiety and frustration,” he mentioned.

The rule, SRO-43, which was notified 1994, offers a authorities job or money compensation to an individual who’s a member of the family of a civilian, authorities worker or armed power private killed in militancy-related motion in J&Ok or a authorities worker who dies in harness aside from attributable to militancy associated motion.

As per minutes of a gathering held final month, Kashmir divisional commissioner Pandurang Ok Pole had directed all deputy commissioners to take beneficiaries of SRO-43 on board and inform them that henceforth the federal government is not going to present employment after the dying of their subsequent to kin, and pays a one-time compensation as an alternative.

However, the Pole later clarified that there was no change in SRO-43 and it was as much as the beneficiaries, whether or not they wished to go for a one-time compensation or authorities job.

Rather mentioned the staff of J&Ok have been working in extraordinarily adversarial working situations, however they have been being “intimidated, harassed and humiliated on one pretext or the other.”

“Police personnel and energy division workers amongst others lose their lives each day and their youngsters are given a job beneath the mentioned SRO. If this safeguard is abolished what’s going to occur to such households who lose their supply of revenue within the line of responsibility. Who would care for their kith and kin and why will educated children be a part of the civil providers?” he mentioned, urging the lieutenant governor and chief secretary to be compassionate in direction of authorities workers.