All the employees associations in J&K Board of School Education (BOSE) are up in arms against the government’s decision to appoint a KAS officer as secretary of the board.
The employees’ associations in JKBOSE, which include officers association, non-gazetted employees association and technocrats union, assembled in the JKBOSE premises here and staged an hour-long protest against the appointment of a KAS officer at the JKBOSE.
The government on Saturday ordered a reshuffle in civil administration and posted a KAS officer, special secretary higher education department (HED) as secretary JKBOSE.
“The protest will be held across the state in all sub offices including Jammu division,” said president general employees association Tauqeer Ahmad Khan.
He said the appointment of KAS officer is in total violation of BOSE Act which has been passed by legislation in 1975.
“JKBOSE Act clearly states that secretary and chairman are appointed through a proper procedure followed by school education department. A search committee is constituted which has framed norms for appointment of the secretary,” he said, adding that BOSE was not a government department but is an autonomous body.
“The government cannot simply transfer an employee to this institution. Procedure needs to be followed under certain norms,” Khan said.
He said the protesting employees have nothing against the officer who has been transferred to JKBOSE. “But he doesn’t fulfill any criteria to be appointed as secretary JKBOSE. We condemn the appointment as it is simply an attack on the autonomy of the JKBOSE,” he said.
“But a simple transfer order cannot supersede an SRO. We won’t leave incumbent secretary to leave his chair,” he said.
The employees have appealed to the government to cancel the transfer order of the KAS officer as secretary BOSE as it is in “complete violation of BOSE norms.”