Shortage of staff

17/03/2018

Incredible it may sound to many, but it is true that over 4400 employees are in place in the Department of Food, Civil Supplies & Public Distribution (FCS&PD) in Kashmir province, while hardly 600 employees are running the affairs of the Department in 10 districts of Jammu province which is facing shortage of over 40 % of the staff. Against the sanctioned strength of 4900 employees in the CAPD department in Kashmir, just 983 is the sanctioned strength of employees including Gazetted, Non-Gazetted and Class- IV in Jammu province, despite the fact that Kashmir region’s area is equivalent to erstwhile Doda district of Jammu region. They said that for the last more than two decades a very negligible recruitment in the department took place in Jammu province to fill up the vacant posts but in Kashmir it happened thrice during last seven years. This glaring example of discrimination within a Government department has exposed the system and the people at the helm of affairs, who never bothered to do justice with the other region and allowed the people to suffer in view of poor delivery of essential services for decades. The food supplies in many remote areas of Kishtwar, Doda, Ramban, Rajouri, Reasi, Udhampur and Kathua in Jammu province could not be streamlined since decades because no sincere efforts were made by the concerned people at the helm of affairs. They failed to maintain balance between the two regions.
New units were allowed to function through the old existing staff within the department. Even class -IV employees were made to work against the higher posts of even Incharge salesmen-cum-storekeepers. At many places one TSO is functioning at 2-3 places and similar is position in case of a few ADs and many Store-keepers/ inspectors/supervisors etc. In Jammu province, the department is reeling under the shortage of about 40 % of staff. Even some officials are holding two to three additional charges, to run the show. In Kashmir region, there is excess staff in many FCS&PD offices. Due to shortage of staff especially in rural and far flung areas of Jammu, the general public is suffering badly. The shortage of supervisory staff has also given rise to the pilferage of ration and scandals in the department during last few decades became headlines of the newspapers. The system in the department needs restructuring/ reorganization. Full computerisation of the record and installation of GPS system in the vehicles will help a lot to check the pilferage of food- grains. Many posts of Gazetted, Non-Gazetted and Class-IV cadre are lying vacant in Jammu region. Some Gazetted cadre posts were filled up in the Department, providing some relief to the over burdened staff of the department, but not much pain was taken in last two decades to fill up the posts in FCS&PD department in Jammu region. It is also fact that there are hardly 15-20 % Govt Sales depots in Jammu region while in Kashmir, about 90 % are Govt depots.

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