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JAMMU: J&K Forest Ministerial Staff Association, Jammu Province discussed the problems being faced by the clerical cadre of the Forest Department at a meeting held here under the Presidentship of Sukhbir Singh, President of the Association.
The association demanded seniority list of Clerical cadre, conducting of DPC of Clerical Cadre and pending clearance of DPC’s, removal of pay anomalies of 5th Pay Commission of Clerical cadre etc.
Singh said that Clerical Cadre of the Forest Department is under physical stress due to non finalization of seniority list and non- promoting of clerical cadre. Most of the Junior Assistants are working on the same designation for the last so many years and are at the verge of retirement, he added.
The participants said that the posts of field staff and at the rank of officers are created but the existing strength of the Ministerial staff has not been reviewed for the last 50 years nor any restricting policy has been adopted by the department.
President Forest Employees Federation Kashmir, Mustaq Ahmed, Anita Sharma, Surinder Kour, Avinash Anand, Rajan Singh, Satish Ganjoo, Raman Ganjoo, Manmohan Singh, Vijay Kumar, Ravinder Kumar, Chander Parkash, Sudesh Jan, Nek Mohammad, Shivdev Singh Pathania, Suneeta Dhar, Reetu Jamwal, Dharam Chand, Dimple Sharma, Jyoti Sharma, Sureshta Sharma and Amit Pal Singh were also present in the meeting.
