New Delhi: A 34-year-old former DRDO employee, who was said to be mentally ill, allegedly died by suicide by jumping in front of a moving Delhi Metro train at Mayur Vihar-1 station on Sunday.
The deceased was M.Tech from IIT Kanpur and had worked for the DRDO for four years.
A senior police official said that they got a PCR call from station controller Mayur Vihar-1 metro station who stated that a person jumped in front of the train at platform number 1.
“A police team was sent to the spot where it met the station controller who said that the person who jumped in front of the metro train had already been shifted to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital. The man was declared brought dead by the doctors,” the official said.
The deceased was identified as Ajay Laxman Pakhale.
“After DRDO, he joined the job of a senior manager in GAIL but resigned in November 2022. It is further revealed that the deceased was mentally ill and was under treatment at Apollo Hospital. He was unmarried and no suicide note was found,” said the official.
According to the police, the CCTV footage was analyzed and it was found that the deceased jumped before the metro train at about 1:51 p.m. The body was sent to a nearby government for postmortem.
SRINAGAR: A government employee was killed in a hit and run case in Udipora village of Langate in Handwara of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district this evening, official sources said.
Quoting an official sources news agency GNS reported that a 42-year-old Jal Shakti Department (previously PHE) employee identified as Ghulam Hassan Sheikh, son of Abdul Gaffar Shiekh resident of Bacherwara Handwara was fatally hit by a vehicle at Udipora Langate.
The injured person, they said, was shifted to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Before the people could reach the spot, the vehicle driver fled the spot, they further said.
SHO Kralgund confirming the death of the person told GNS that a case has been registered in this regard. “We have constituted a team to nab the culprit as soon as possible,” he said.
Handwara, Feb 8: A government employee was killed in a hit and run case in Udipora village of Langate in Handwara of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district this evening, official sources said.
They told GNS a 42-year-old Jal Shakti Department (previously PHE) employee identified as Ghulam Hassan Sheikh, son of Abdul Gaffar Shiekh resident of Bacherwara Handwara was fatally hit by a vehicle at Udipora Langate.
The injured person, they said, was shifted to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Before the people could reach the spot, the vehicle driver fled the spot, they further said.
SHO Kralgund confirming the death of the person told GNS that a case has been registered in this regard. “We have constituted a team to nab the culprit as soon as possible”, he said. (GNS)
Two people assault a Bank of India employee in Gujarat
Nadiad: The police have arrested two persons for assaulting an employee at Bank of India’s (BOI) Nadiad branch.
Manish Dhangar is serving as an officer with the Bank of India’s Nadiad-Kapadwanj branch, handling the loan desk.
Today in Nadiad Branch of BoI two customers entered the branch and badly assaulted the officer on duty. In full public view they called the name of the caste and threatened to murder the officer concerned outside the premises. Where is the safety for Banker’s?@nsitharamanpic.twitter.com/a0S7i7SFIv
In his complaint, Dhangar said, “On Friday afternoon, a customer named Samarth Brahmbhatt reached the branch and started beating me. He slapped me three to four times and even kicked me. When the other staff tried to intervene, Samarth’s friend Parth, who was accompanying him, kicked me.”
According to Dhangar, Samarth was angry with him and the bank because repeated calls were made to him to submit a copy of his house insurance policy.
Samarth had threatened over the phone that he will not submit the insurance policy.
Samarth had taken a home loan from the bank. During the audit, it was found that the customer had not submitted his house insurance policy, which was required since the house was not mortgaged with the bank.
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir police Thursday claimed to have achieved a major breakthrough in January 21 Narwal, Jammu blast by arrested a Lashkar-e-Toiba militant, who is also a government employee, from whose possession a “perfume IED”, first of its kind, was recovered.
Addressing a press conference in Jammu, Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh, as per news agency KNO, said that after 11 days of hardwork of the Jammu police, a major success was achieved in the form of arrest of one Arif Ahmed, a resident of Reasi district of Jammu.
“Arif is a government employee and is an active militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit. He was working at the behest of Qasim, a Reasi resident and his uncle Qamardin, also a Reasi resident, presently in Pakistan, who are part of LeT,” the DGP said. He said Arif was involved in three IED blast incidents—Shahstri Nagar, Katra and January 21 incident of Narwal, Jammu.
“So far we had seen IED with explosive materials, sticky bombs and timer fitted IEDs but a new type of IED was recovered from Arif which is Perfume IED. This IED is in a bottle form and seems like a perfume bottle but contains explosive material,” the DGP said, adding that “since the IED is new to us, experts will see how harmful and how powerful it can be. We have not touched it so far.”
He said that the main aim of these IEDs is to target innocent people and to trigger communal hatred in the Jammu region. “Arif will not only lose his job but a strong dossier will be prepared against him. He was a very clever operative. He had burnt all the evidence be that his clothes, shoes and that he even set ablaze his mobile phone as well. But police worked hard on even small inputs and leads that led to the arrest of Arif,” he said, as per KNO.
The DGP said that IED’s received by Arif were air-dropped through drones. “He has confessed to the crime,” he said. To a query about Danghri, Rajouri incident and the fate of probe, the DGP said that the investigations are in the advance stage and the output will be shared with the media men shortly.
Asked about further links of Arif and possible Kashmir connection, the DGP said that so far it has not been seen that Kashmiri youth are coming to Jammu for militancy or for that matter Jammu youth going to Kashmir. “Further investigations are on,” he said.
Srinagar, Feb 02: Jammu and Kashmir police Thursday claimed to have achieved a major breakthrough in January 21 Narwal, Jammu blast by arrested a Lashkar-e-Toiba militant, who is also a government employee, from whose possession a “perfume IED”, first of its kind, was recovered.
Addressing a press conference in Jammu, Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh, as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said that after 11 days of hardwork of the Jammu police, a major success was achieved in the form of arrest of one Arif Ahmed, a resident of Reasi district of Jammu.
“Arif is a government employee and is an active militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit. He was working at the behest of Qasim, a Reasi resident and his uncle Qamardin, also a Reasi resident, presently in Pakistan, who are part of LeT,” the DGP said. He said Arif was involved in three IED blast incidents—Shahstri Nagar, Katra and January 21 incident of Narwal, Jammu.
“So far we had seen IED with explosive materials, sticky bombs and timer fitted IEDs but a new type of IED was recovered from Arif which is Perfume IED. This IED is in a bottle form and seems like a perfume bottle but contains explosive material,” the DGP said, adding that “since the IED is new to us, experts will see how harmful and how powerful it can be. We have not touched it so far.”
He said that the main aim of these IEDs is to target innocent people and to trigger communal hatred in the Jammu region. “Arif will not only lose his job but a strong dossier will be prepared against him. He was a very clever operative. He had burnt all the evidence be that his clothes, shoes and that he even set ablaze his mobile phone as well. But police worked hard on even small inputs and leads that led to the arrest of Arif,” he said, as per KNO.
The DGP said that IED’s received by Arif were air-dropped through drones. “He has confessed to the crime,” he said. To a query about Danghri, Rajouri incident and the fate of probe, the DGP said that the investigations are in the advance stage and the output will be shared with the media men shortly.
Asked about further links of Arif and possible Kashmir connection, the DGP said that so far it has not been seen that Kashmiri youth are coming to Jammu for militancy or for that matter Jammu youth going to Kashmir. “Further investigations are on,” he said—(KNO)
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the Union Budget for 2023 in the Parliament. This is the last full-year budget before the national elections in 2024, announcing a series of tax reliefs, Nirmala Sitharaman has give a huge relief to and announced six tax slabs and rebate has been extended on income up to Rs 7 lakh.
An employee who was extremely happy with the tax rebate deliberately ruined his year end appraisal to make sure his salary remains within 7 lakhs slabs. Reportedly, the employee’s salary was 6.8 Lakh and any positive appraisal has would have made him fall in a tax slab.
Speaking to The Fauxy, the employee said “I don’t like making fake bills and investing in PPF or taking home loans, hence, I don’t want to be under tax slab and i’ll make sure that in next appraisal also I fall within no tax limit”.
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SRINAGAR: For “effective utilization of manpower”, the Jammu and Kashmir government has made public the policy for inter-departmental deputation of employees, which will be based on their technical and professional qualifications. The guidelines were issued by GAD on basis of the Administrative Council Decision taken on January 1, 2023.
The Kashmir PHE Joint Employees Association Union Tuesday staged a protest here demanding release of their pending wages and and blamed the Chief Engineer of suppressing their genuine demands. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
The policy will cover all employees in Jammu and Kashmir except all India services, JKAS, Jammu and Kashmir Police, Jammu and Kashmir Accounts Gazetted Service and Jammu and Kashmir Forest Gazetted Service. Under the policy, departments requiring the services of particular employees on basis of their expertise will have to follow a formal process, which has been detailed in the order.
The Policy
Here is the policy that will govern the inter-departmental deputations:
“This policy shall govern the deputation of employees possessing higher educational/technical qualifications outside their parent departments where their specific skill-sets/qualifications can be put to better use, consistent with the requirements of the borrowing departments.
Objective
Developmental Departments like the Public Works (R&B) Department, Agriculture Production Department, Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Housing and Urban Development Department, Information Technology Department etc., are facing a dearth of technically and professionally qualified employees. There is a large pool of skilled employees in the Government, whose services are currently being under-utilized. Skill mapping and optimum utilization of the mapped skills are among the fundamental tools for good governance. In order to ensure efficient utilization of human resources, and with a view to match demand and supply for improving efficiency in governance, a need has been felt to utilize the services of these qualified (technical/professional) employees effectively. This shall address the skill gaps in various technical/developmental departments and provide employees with an opportunity to put their specific skill sets to the best possible use.
Manoj Sinha
Exceptions
The following services shall not be covered under this policy:
All India Services.
Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service.
Jammu and Kashmir Police Service.
Jammu and Kashmir Accounts Gazetted Service.
Jammu and Kashmir Forest Gazetted Service.
Procedure for utilization of services in other departments
The initiation for the process of utilization of services of qualified (technical/professional) employee(s) shall be at the level of the department that intends to utilize the services of an employee with such qualifications as may be suitable for the better functioning of the department, or at the level of the employee (technically/professionally qualified) who is desirous of providing his/her services in such a department where his/her higher qualification/skill-sets may be better utilized.
An employee desirous of offering his/her technical/professional services to another department may visit a designated window, which shall be made available on the e-HRMS portal, through his/her CPIS ID and submit a form prescribed for the purpose, along with copies of the relevant certificates/degrees/diplomas. The employee shall also provide reasonable justification as to how his/her services shall be better utilized in the department where he/she intends to provide his/her services.
Alternately, the department that intends to utilize the services of a (technically/professionally qualified) employee may submit an application in the format prescribed for the purpose, along with the details of such employee(s) whose services they intend to utilize, to the Screening Committee headed by the Administrative Secretary, General Administration Department.
General Administration Department shall seek the comments of the parent department of the employee in all cases.
The above application(s)/cases shall be accompanied with the following documents:-
(i) Requisition by the borrowing department as per the prescribed format (Annexure-B).
(ii) Application form to be submitted by the candidate on the e-HRMS portal.
(iii) Copy of the first two pages of the service book of the employee.
(iv) Copy of the relevant recruitment rules/guidelines.
(v) Comments of the Administrative Secretary of the employee where he/she is presently employed or where his services are to be utilized.
(vi) Statement showing length of service rendered earlier by the employee.
(vii) Status of employment (substantive/on probation/temporary)
(viii) Latest vigilance clearance/work and conduct of employee.
(ix) Affidavit from the employee to the effect that he/she shall not claim extension in the tenure of deputation beyond the sanctioned term, and that the employee shall not claim any preferential right in matters of promotion, perks, salary/emoluments etc. in the borrowing department.
Screening Committee
For the purpose of this policy, a Screening Committee comprising the following shall be constituted, which shall scrutinize all the applications for the utilization of services of qualified (technical/professional) employees received from the different departments:
Administrative Secretary, General Administration Department (Chairman).
Representative of Planning, Development and Monitoring Department (Not below the rank of Additional Secretary) (Member).
Representative of Finance Department (Not below the rank of Additional Secretary) (Member).
Representative of the Parent/Lending Department (Not below the rank of Additional Secretary) (Member).
Representative of the Department where the services of the employee is to be utilized (Not below the rank of Additional Secretary) (Member).
The above committee shall be serviced by General Administration Department.
The above Screening Committee shall examine each case and submit its recommendations to the General Administration Department, which shall place the same before the Competent Authority for consideration/approval.
Period for utilization of services
The services of an employee will be initially utilized on deputation for a period of one year from the date the incumbent employee is relieved from the parent department. The period of utilization of services may be extended, provided both the parent department and the borrowing department mutually agree upon the extension. The decision of the Screening Committee shall be final and binding in the matter relating to extension in the deputation. Such extension shall be for a maximum period of one year at a time, but the maximum term of deputation shall not, under any circumstances, exceed four years.
If the department expresses intent to retain an official beyond the prescribed tenure, it shall initiate a proposal for seeking concurrence of the parent department three months before the date of expiry of the tenure. In no case shall the borrowing department retain an official beyond the sanctioned term, unless prior approval of the Competent Authority to grant further extension has been obtained on the recommendation of the Screening Committee after concurrence of the Finance Department.
Incentives for opting for deputation
Employees who qualify for and provide their services on deputation shall be granted incentives in the form of age relaxation and additional weightage in recruitment against higher posts by the Government recruiting agencies. Proposals for consequential changes in the recruitment rules shall be forwarded by all Administrative Departments to the Standing Committee constituted vide Government Order No. 1223-3K(GAD) of 2021 dated 17/11/2021.
Borrowing departments shall also provide opportunities to such employees for further refinement of their existing skill sets in their areas of expertise/specialization in the form of capacity building through the organization of workshops, learning opportunities, training, etc.
Pay and conditions of service in the borrowing department
The employee whose services are utilized in another department shall retain his/her lien and promotion prospects in his/her parent department.
All matters governing the employee’s service shall be dealt with by the parent department(s) in terms of the rules as are presently applicable to him/her.
Disciplinary matters shall be dealt with by the parent department in consultation with the employee’s borrowing department, in case the disciplinary offence relates to his/her stint in the borrowing department.
The employee shall continue to draw salary from his/her parent department after obtaining the attendance from the department where his/her services are being utilized.
During the period of utilization of services, the employee shall continue to be governed by the same pay scale which would have been applicable to him/her had he/she continued to work in the parent department.
The employees who qualify for and are deputed under this policy shall not claim for any preferential treatment in the borrowing department in matters of salary, allowances, perks etc.
The employees who qualify for and are deputed under this policy shall not claim for absorption in the borrowing department.
A person in a higher scale of pay/level in pay matrix shall not be appointed on deputation to a post in lower scale of pay/level in the pay matrix.
The designation and post of the employee shall remain unchanged in the new department.
The deputation of any employee shall not affect the sanctioned strength of the posts within the borrowing department and the deputed employee shall work only as supplementary/additional human resource for the borrowing department.
The APRs/work and conduct of the employee shall be initiated, reviewed and accepted by the department where his services are being utilized and same shall be forwarded annually to the parent department of the employee(s).
All conditions of service, as provided in the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service Regulations, 1956, Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1956 with such adaptations, modifications and additions as have been rendered necessary by amendments issued from time to time, and other rules as exist or shall come into existence in the future shall apply mutatis mutandis to the employees deputed under this policy.”
