Odisha: Engineers of Water Resources resent delay in promotion

By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Deputy govt engineers (DEEs) ready to be elevated to the put up of govt engineers have expressed grave resentment towards the delay in granting promotion for the calendar yr 2020.Even as 24 posts of govt engineer are mendacity vacant within the Water Resources (WR) division and 25 engineers have been cleared by the departmental promotion committee (DPC), they haven’t been given promotion underneath the plea of cadre restructuring.

The undue delay in giving promotion to DEEs has blocked the promotional prospects of assistant govt engineers (AEEs). At current, 45 posts of DEE are mendacity vacant.“There is absolutely no connection between promotion and restructuring of engineering cadre. As cadre restructuring is a time taking process, we failed to understand why the promotion files have been held up by the authority,” mentioned a member of the Odisha Engineers Service Association (OESA).

As per the instruction of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in December 2019, the DPC ought to meet and finalise the listing of officers to be promoted earlier than January of a brand new calendar yr. This would allow the division involved to offer well timed promotion to all eligible authorities workers.In deviation of the federal government instruction, the DPC was performed in October 2020, after a delay of eight months. Of the 59 DEEs cleared for promotion, 34 of them have been given promotion. The different 24 vacant posts have been presupposed to be stuffed up by December 31, 2020.

Drawing the eye of the Principal Secretary of the division, OESA has requested for filling up all promotional posts together with three posts every on the degree of Superintending Engineer and Chief Engineer. The affiliation has additional requested to conduct the DPC by finish of this month for filling up the posts that can fall vacant throughout 2021 and cease the follow of partaking retired engineers.