Govt forms panels for verification of service records of employees

SRINAGAR — The government on Friday constituted committees at Administrative Department level and District and Directorate level for verifying the service records in respect of employees in whose cases initial appointment orders are available, albeit, the promotion orders are not available.

Administrative Departmental level committee will be headed by Special Secretary/Additional Secretary as Chairman, Director Finance/FA&CAO and Nodal Officer JKHRMS.

District/Directorate level committee comprises Deputy Commissioner/Head of the Department Concerned as Chairman while Director Finance /FA&CAO/Accounts Officer and an officer not below the rank of Deputy Secretary shall be its members, according to a government order cited by the news agency GNS.

The committees have been asked to verify the promotions of the employees in accordance with their entries recorded in service books vis-a-vis their promotion orders and another service record available with the Department/Directorates.

“The committees shall furnish report along with its recommendations to the Administrative Department on case to case basis, with explicit reasons, where discrepancy with respect to promotions is observed,” the order reads, adding, “Salaries shall be drawn only after the approval of concerned Administrative Secretary, in respect of only those employees whose initial appointment orders are available and promotions are in order.”