Jammu, Jan 14: The Central Administrative Tribunal has restrained the Government from placing the Junior Engineers as In-charge Assistant Engineers (Civil) working in Public Works Department.
Government of J&K PW (R&B) department on January 03 while issuing an order through Commissioner Secretary to Government Public Works Department granted sanction to the placement of Junior Engineers (Degree as well as Diploma holders) as I/C Assistant Engineers in Civil with the condition that the same be effective till regular promotions by DPC are made on the post of AEs.
Apart from Diploma holder Junior Engineers the order of placement for JE to AE has been made with regard to the 99 JEs which has been challenged by the affected JEs on the ground that they are Juniors to them as such are not entitled for the promotion in question.
The petioners submitted that the order of interim promotion by the authorities has been passed in order to prejudice the rights and interests of the applicants who are junior to the JEs who have been given placement of AEs in the department is unsustainable & added that all the 99 JEs who are being given the charges of AEs in the department, have been recruited and appointed much after the recruitment and appointment of the aggrieved JEs in the Department as such ought to have been reflected by the authorities in the seniority list at the serial of their seniority based on the date of their appointment & based on drawing of their no seniority list, the authorities cannot grant promotions even on an in-charge basis to them.
After hearing CAT bench directed Govt to restrain from making promotion to the post of AEs who are junior to the aggrieved candidates & has also issued notice to Commissioner Secretaries of GAD, PWD, Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction and Chief Engineer (R&B) Kashmir for filing of counter reply to the contentions raised by the aggrieved JEs before the CAT.
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