Seasonal transfers in the months of April for non teaching staff and at the academic session for teachers would by all standards of understandabilities open new flood gates for corruption in the cases of transfers as the collaborators of the saffron party in Jammu & Kashmir would by all probabilities push transfer files of the employees in a queue for approvals only to get their palms greased well in advance. Nothing has changed in case of the transfer policy of the teaching staff in both school and higher education departments as the government has just endorsed the decades old policy of allowing transfers only after the end of the academic session and not during the session but transfers of other employees only in April Month would leave very little time for the administrative departments and the directorates to deal with the issues related to other works as their whole attention would be diverted to the transfers of the employees. So the seasonal transfers won’t only intensify the already intensifying corruption in transfer case but would also badly hit the working of the departments. More over the decision would force the people from valley to rush in huge numbers to Jammu city only for pursuing the transfers’ cases of their friends, relatives and well wishes and as such the policy is obviously an attempt to drain out the money from the pockets of gullible Kashmiris during their month long stay in Jammu city. More over restricting the transfers of the employees would give enough time to the collaborators of the political party in power at the centre to keep ready the transfer files of their choices for approvals just to make fast bucks from the beneficiaries of transfers in short spell of just one month. Interestingly only five months are left for the commencement of the April 2021 and as such message goes out that the new transfer policy is just an opportunity granted to the collaborators of the political party in power at the centre to keep ready the transfer files of their choices for approvals just to make fast bucks from the beneficiaries of transfers in short spell of just one month. In a sorry state of affairs the Jammu & Kashmir Government does not think about the implications of the decisions it takes in haste.
Restricting the transfers of the employees would give enough time to the collaborators of the political party in power at the centre to keep ready the transfer files of their choices for approvals just to make fast bucks from the beneficiaries of transfers in short spell of just one month.
After the bifurcation of the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state into two union territories in October last year, the Jammu & Kashmir Government directly controlled by the central government for the last more than eighteen months has set a wrong precedence of rolling backs it’s in own decisions taken without proper application of mind. The precedence of rolling back it’s own decisions in short span of just couple of weeks has eroded the credibility of the Jammu & Kashmir. While most of the decisions taken by either the Jammu & Kashmir or the central government should have been left for the next popular government, the policy of roll backs and U-turn is fast eroding the faith of the people in the working of the government.
