CIC Operators working in Rural Development Department are not backdoor appointees and they have been recruited through proper recruitment procedure in the year 2004 through District Level Recruitment Committee headed by concerned Deputy Commissioners and since then they are continuously working in Department of Rural Development Panchayati Raj, J&K on contractual basis on a meager amount of Rs 10,000/= as monthly salary, due to which they are facing a lot of hardships to feed their families and to provide better education to their children during this sky-high market inflation period.
These CIC Operators are highly qualified having M.Tech, MCA, M.Sc.IT, B.E & B.Tech Degrees and are technically very sound and efficient. They are handling efficiently more than 26 web portals on daily basis of Department of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj. Besides all other office assignments viz-a-viz elections, establishment, accounts, works etc. at Block/District/Directorate/Secretariat level.
In the year 2014, Jammu & Kashmir Government passed an order in Cabinet to formulate a proposal for the regularizations of CIC Operators in the Rural Development Department. In the year 2016, Jammu & Kashmir Government through a cabinet decision created 172 posts of Data Entry Operators for regularization of CIC Operators vide Govt. Order No. 320-RD & PR of 2016 dated14.12.2016. That in the year 2017, the Empowered Committee of J&K Government headed by Principal Secretary, Department of Finance cleared their regularization cases one by one for regularization under J&K Civil Services (Special Provision) Act 2010 in its two meetings viz. 58th Meeting dated 22.03.2017 & 60th Meeting dated 12-10-2017 and also communicated their recommendations to Rural Development Department for issuance of formal regularization order, which are yet to be issued. CIC Operators regularization case has also got clearance from Department of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, J&K and Advocate General of J&K .
On the directions of GAD file was again forwarded to Finance Department in the year 2019 for its final views regarding the regularization 172 CIC operators and the Finance department reiterated their earlier decision to absorb these CIC operators as Data Entry Operators with immediate effect.
Last year in 2021 GAD (General Administration Department) proposed that the regularization issue of the CIC Operators of RDD will be settled by newly reconstituted Establishment-Cum-Selection Committee for which a Circular was issued by GAD to submit the requisite information. In reference to this circular, complete information has also been submitted to GAD by Department of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj for conducting meeting of the said committee but no action has been taken in the matter so far.
I urge Shri Manoj Sinha Ji , Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir (UT) to intervene personally into the matter and provide justice on priority basis to these CIC Operators working in Rural Development Department, who are suffering very badly since last two decades.
