Non-implementation of ACP demoralised engineers: Shah Faesal

Reacting to a daylong mass casual leave by graduate engineers, President Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement (JKPM), Shah Faesal, claimed that the non-implementation of Assured Career Progression (ACP) has demoralised them.

Expressing solidarity with the engineers, Faesal said, “Itis shocking to look at the level of stagnation in the engineering sector and noserious effort has been made to address their career related issues.”

   

“It is a tragedy that even Chief Engineers are working inthe pay scale of AEEs and the OPG promotion syndrome has destroyed the cadrecompletely. After 30 years of service, officers are retiring with the samepension that their fellow employees with one third of their service,” he said.

Lamenting the ACP scheme approved by the government, theJKPM President said, “Even after years of hard work, the scheme has not beenimplemented so far.”

PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Supporting the strike by engineers, former MemberLegislative Assembly and Peoples Democratic Party Chief Spokesperson, RafiAhmad Mir, urged the Governor’s administration to address their demands.

He said, “Engineering is the backbone of a developing stateand ensuring the well being of our engineers is imperative.”

“Engineers are genuinely irked and need their demands to beredressed immediately. They should get the benefits at par with theircounterparts,” he said.

“A huge gap has been created between their regularisation,career progression and expansion of their cadre, their strike is a wakeup calland needs to be addressed by the Governor administration,” Mir said. (KNS)

DEMOCRATIC PARTY NATIONALIST

Democratic Party Nationalist (DPN) President and formerminister, Ghulam Hassan Mir, said that the daylong strike by engineers wasjustified and requires early measures.”The daylong mass leave is an awakening for thegovernment. Our engineers, who are the only people actually behind thedevelopment process, need to be helped and their demands need to be addressed,”he said.

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