Adhocism in government recruitments is the cause of never ending stress among youth which does not head to any dead end in Jammu & Kashmir due to slow and steady expansion of the private sector. Though there is nothing new in it that adhoc appointees protest for regularisation time and again but the successive popular governments in Jammu & Kashmir never choose to find an alternative to adhocism in Government jobs. Though successive governments offer concessions to cool down the tempers of adhoc appointees of different departments but sense of job insecurity continues to haunt adhoc appointees even after getting concessions from time to time. Recently Jammu & Kashmir Government hiked monthly wages of daily rated workers (DRWs) working in different departments for years together but their core demand of regularisation remains unresolved. Hike in wages being a short time relief timely silences adhoc appointees but it does not end their struggle for regularisation. Since there is no fixed time span for regularisation of adhoc appointees in any government department, the trends of protests by adhoc appointees also don’t head to any dead end in Jammu & Kashmir. Adhocism is not being pursued only in case of engagement of daily rated workers for carrying out developmental works in different departments but adhocism was pursued by successive popular governments of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state even in case of recruitment of teachers in government run schools and degree colleges.
A change in the existing recruitment processes and procedures for making recruitments time bound exercises is by all standards of understandabilities the only way to curb adhocism and further the causes of job security among youth in Jammu & Kashmir. Never forget that increasing furore over lack of job security and employment avenues is the cause of increasing stress and economic deprivation among youth in Jammu & Kashmir.
When quality education is the priority of the government, adhocism in recruitment of teachers goes against the very spirit of quality education. Even this time the lecturers in government higher secondary schools and degree colleges are appointed on adhoc basis for a single academic session just on the basis of merit in the qualifying examinations but not through a regular recruitment process followed by J&K Public Service Commission (J&K PSC) . Unfortunately the J&K PSC(Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission) and J&K SSB(Jammu & Kashmir Services Selection Board) instead of fast pacing the regular recruitment processes tend to keep student engaged with the written tests and interviews for not less than two years. A change in the existing recruitment processes and procedures for making recruitments time bound exercises is by all standards of understandabilities the only way to curb adhocism and further the causes of job security among youth in Jammu & Kashmir. Never forget that increasing furore over lack of job security and employment avenues is the cause of increasing stress and economic deprivation among youth in Jammu & Kashmir.
