Jammu and Kashmir administration tells officials to weed out ‘ineffective’ staff over 48
The Hindu
Chief Secretary issues orders for performance review of govt. servants
Days after 11 employees were the J&K administration on Friday asked the top officials to identify “ineffective” employees above the age of 48 years in the Union Territory (UT). “All the Administrative Secretaries are impressed upon to initiate the exercise of reviewing the performance of each government servant who has completed 48 years of age or has 22 years of service, for identifying those who are ineffective in work and are not fit to continue in their post and have no utility for the purpose for which they are employed,” J&K Chief Secretary, Arun Kumar Mehta, said, in an order. This is the first time in J&K that all the employees above the age of 48 have come under the administration’s scanner.
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