STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: The Central Executive Council (CEC) of All Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture Officers Welfare Forum (AJKAOWF) apprised the Director Agriculture Jammu, A.K Malhotra regarding the various issues plaguing the department in a meeting-cum-interaction held here on Sunday. The charter of demands put forth by Vijay Kumar Upadhyaya, President AJKAOWF included early conduct of DPC, granting of Time Bound Promotions (TBP) and running grades for the Gazetted Agriculture Cadre on the pattern of other professionals like Medicos/ISM/Veterinarians, reorganisation of the Agriculture Department and Interim arrangements for filling of the vacant posts on the pattern of One Man One Post (OMOP).
The forum requested the Director Agriculture to provide interim relief to the senior most officers of the department by placing them on higher available vacant posts as per their eligibility on the basis of One Man One Post (OMOP). It was stressed that the working of the department has suffered due to non-conductance of DPC for the last three decades. In Kashmir division all the vacant posts have been filled by interim arrangements on the premise of One Man One Post. The same framework may be implemented in Jammu division also in the interest of administrative exigency and smooth functioning of the department to serve the farming community.
The Director of Agriculture, Malhotra listened to the demands patiently and assured every possible help to resolve all the pending issues including campus development, establishment of Centres of Excellence, recognising services of outstanding officers, Constitution of Technical Committees at various levels and Human Resource related demands at the earliest.
