Srinagar: Taking a dig on both National Conference (NC) government and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Jammu Kashmir Peoples Conference President and MLA Handwara, Sajad Lone today said that he knew it before hand that outsourcing issue will eventually come down to blame game and NC will say PDP made back door appointments during their tenure.
“As CM sahib has said today.”
“I raised this question in the Assembly. And the government replied that 25000 jobs had been outsourced.
“These are not backdoor appointments. These are outsourced appointments of government jobs. The crime committed by NC is that these should have been proper government jobs not outsourced jobs.
“Unfortunately PDP is in a hurry of dramatising every issue, without understanding the core issue.
“Please to my friends in PDP. Can somebody tell Mehbooba Ji that these are not backdoor appointments. These are outsourced appointments. And outsourcing government jobs is the biggest evil confronting our youth,” he said.
He further said that the scourge of Outsourcing of government jobs is a much bigger crime than the menace of backdoor appointments. It is the introduction of an evil system that will make government based employment temporary. It is a system which is prone to corruption, where outsourcing companies and ruling class collude. And there are many more sensitive issues. Government jobs cannot be and should not be outsourced.
“Coming to sensitive issues”, Lone said, “My anger from outsourcing stems from the government’s decision to outsource jobs related to what was called ICPS during my tenure as Social Welfare Minister. And is now called Mission Vastalya.”
“I had the privilege of implementing ICPS in J and K. An entire departmental regime, ICPS was set up for protection of children. This was for the first time that a formal child protection regime was set up in J and K. ICPS would protect children against sexual abuse, juvenile detention and many more threats. Child protection committees were set up across all districts,” Lone said.
He further said that post 2019, the LG government tried to outsource the appointments in ICPS, now Mission Vastalya. They decided to fire all the employees recruited by government on contractual basis. The employees went to the court and got a stay order. The remaining recruitments however, were to be outsourced.
“I have issued a statement against these actions, I think it was 4 years back. I stated that how can you outsource jobs related to our children. Will an outsourced employee be able to stand up to a senior police officer and tell him why have you arrested a juveHenile,” Lone said.
He said that after an elected government was in place, he thought that ‘our children will be safe’.
“And to my horror this elected NC government outsourced the remaining jobs of ICPS, now Mission Vastalya. And their intentions against the existing ICPS government employees are as malafide as they were in the post 2019 regime. In all assembly sessions I asked questions about ICPS. Answers reeked of arrogance,” said Lone
“To my friends in PDP. Please this is not an issue of backdoor appointments. Please don’t trivialise this issue. Should you need any help in understanding this issue please feel free to contact. But in a hurry to earn some brownie points don’t kill this issue,” Lone said, adding, “I see those who have been recruited as victims. They are in employment, at the pleasure of the outsourcing company. These people are temporary. They can be fired anytime. And they will be. New government will mean new outsourcing agency.
“Outsourcing is a serious issue confronting our youth. It is a bad system. I have said it repeatedly in the past that it privatises government jobs. NC promised in their manifesto that they will create 100000 new government jobs. Instead of creating 100000 government jobs they have so far converted 25000 government jobs into private jobs,” Lone said.
