After 22 years of service or reaching the age of 48, the government has asked administrative secretaries to start a process to identify employees who are “ineffective in their work or not fit to continue.”
The J&K government amended Article 226 (2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service Regulations in October last year to allow any government servant who has completed 22 years of service or reached the age of 48 to retire at any time.
According to a notification issued by the then-Financial Commissioner, the appropriate authority must give either three months prior notice or three months of allowance before retiring any employee.
“The exercise of review of performance of the Government Servants will be initiated for each Government Servant for the first time after her/his completion of 22 years of Government Service or attaining 48 years of age, and any time thereafter, as may be required,” the notification states.
“It has been observed that the departments have not initiated any exercise for reviewing the performance of Government servants,” said incumbent Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta in a new circular issued on July 15.
“It was impressed upon all administrative Secretaries to initiate the process/ exercise of reviewing the performance of Government Servants who have completed 48 years of age/ 22 years of service for the purpose of identifying such Government Servants who are ineffective in work and are not fit to continue in the post held and have no utility for the purpose for which they are employed,” the circular reads.
“The departments shall follow the procedure outlined in Article 226(2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service Regulations Volume I and present the cases of such identified employees to the Review Committee for Competent Authority Consideration,” the circular adds.
The Chenab Times News Desk