In a landmark determination in direction of the welfare of federal government workforce, the UT of J&K administration will no longer make any fresh appointments beneath Statutory Procedures and Get (SRO)-202, which was introduced by PDP-BJP govt in 2015. J&K Administrative Council achieved below the chairmanship of Lt Governor Girish Chander Murmu at Raj Bhavan to withdraw the controversial provision in an endeavor to bring big aid to the youth.
What is SRO 202?
SRO 202 was launched with the pretext of delivering employment to the unemployed youth, but it sparked protests and outrage appropriate from the begin. The UT government designed close to 13,000 appointments less than SRO 202 since its inception, with practically no recruitments in the earlier two many years.
As for every SRO 202 norms, all freshly appointed workers should undergo a probation period of time of 5 many years. During this interval, the appointee would only be entitled to fundamental fork out. Regularisation would be just after the appointee qualifies specified means exams and training.
What does scraping of SRO 202 mean?
This is a substantial acquire for the youth as J&K administration’s choice not only cuts down the probation period of time from five to common two years for current appointees, no new new appointments would be created below the controversial occupation policy, which was termed “anti-youth” and “discriminatory.”
Talking at a push convention, the Principal Secretary PDD & Facts, Rohit Kansal, who is also the Government spokesperson, said the decision will reward equally present personnel and prospective recruits as all upcoming appointments including these in the pipeline, which wouldn’t be underneath SRO 202.
Kansal more added that all SRO 202 appointees will be qualified to all advantages in fixation of pay, increments and allowances productive July 1, 2020.
“LG Jammu and Kashmir Murmu just now named up to express that as suggested to him, SRO-202 will not be indicated in new recruitment principles and for the present appointees beneath SRO-202, the probation time period has been reduced to two yrs. Ought to compliment him for prompt response,” Dr Jatinder Singh, Minister of Condition in Primary Minister’s Business office, tweeted in reaction.
The UT administration also identified as the move “historic” and a “enormous phase towards employee welfare.”
