SC Employees face problems in promotions: Union leaders to Jain
- February 28, 2021
- Updated: 01:34 am
DW BUREAU / Chandigarh
A delegation of Dr. BR Ambedkar SC BC Employees Welfare Association UT Chandigarh, under the leadership of Dr. Dharmendra met Satya Pal Jain, former Lok Sabha MP of Chandigarh and Additional General Solicitor General of India, and handed over a memorandum addressed to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore.
The delegation informed Jain about the problems faced in the promotions by the employees of SC society in Chandigarh. Dr. Dharmendra told him that SC employees are being discriminated against in promotions in the Education Department, Technical Education Department and Police Department of Chandigarh. He said that reservation is not being given to the employees of SC society in promotion. Speaking further, Dr. Dharmendra told Jain that the Social Welfare Department of the Chandigarh Administration and the Personnel Department of the Chandigarh Administration have issued instructions from time to time to all the Departments of the Chandigarh Administration to make reservation rosters and reservation policy be implemented to promote SC employees, but reservation rosters are not being implemented in many departments.
Dr. Dharmendra informed that the Education Department of Chandigarh has issued a letter to Dr. BR Ambedkar, SC BC Employees Welfare Association, UT Chandigarh, mentioning that a reservation policy is being implemented in promotions of employees in non-teaching posts of the Education Department.
The association also handed over a copy of that letter to Jain. Satya Pal Jain listened to the delegation and assured that their demand was justified and that the employees of SC society should be promoted under the reservation policy. He assured the delegation that he would convey his voice to the Union Home Minister and UT Administrator of Chandigarh and would soon resolve the reservation issue in promotion of employees of SC society.
The delegation included Dr. Dharmendra, Dr. Surendra Pal Chauhan, Jatinder Bagade, Dr. Rajesh Johal, former President Sardar Bhupinder Singh Bhagomajra, Rishipal, Ajay Kumar, Surendra Kharera, Badri Prasad Kaushik, Sukhwinder Singh, Manjeet Kaur, Baljit Kaur, Anil Kumar and others.
(editor@dailyworld.in)