Seven years on, JMC still to fill 140 posts of civic workers
ARVIND SHARMA. Updated: 8/23/2019 11:22:20 AM
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JAMMU: Although, Jammu has been aspiring to become Smart City, but the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), the premier executing body in the ambitious project, has failed to fill one hundred and forty (140) posts of civic workers, which have been lying vacant in the Corporation since the last more than 7 years.
Due to non-availability of such large number of civic workers, not only the sanitation of Jammu, the city of temples, is worst hit but many works under the components of Smart City Project are also adversely affected like implementation of door to door garbage lifting/collection programme, sewerage treatment etc.
As per the official figures available with The News Now, there are a total of 1050 sanctioned posts of civic workers in the JMC.
Sources informed that these 1050 posts had been sanctioned for the Corporation since long when the city’s population was far less as compared to the present time when the population of Jammu (municipal limits) has increased manifold.
“With passage of time, the population of Jammu, the city of temples, has increased manifold but these 1050 posts of civic workers had been there since last many years and have not been increased despite repeated requests,” sources informed.
Apart from this, the JMC, last year, also extended its limits and added four (4) more wards within its jurisdiction thus making the wards in its limits to seventy five (75), which earlier used to be seventy one (71).
They also informed that the JMC has not been able to provide most of the services in the newly added wards in its jurisdiction mainly due to shortage of manpower.
“The posts of civic workers have not been increased even after extension of JMC limits after addition of four more wards in the jurisdiction of the Corporation despite requests,” they informed.
In this regard, Mayor, Jammu Municipal Corporation, Chander Mohan Gupta, when contacted, said that the process will soon be initiated to fill up the vacant posts of civic workers in the Corporation.
“Applications have been invited and soon the process to fill the vacant posts of civic workers will be started,” the Mayor told The News Now.
Updated On 8/23/2019 11:29:21 AM