The Jammu and Kashmir government has notified the rules for a special recruitment drive for 3,000 Kashmiri unemployed migrant youth under the Prime Minister's Package for Return and Rehabilitation of Kashmiri migrants to the valley. The notification was followed by the commitments made by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Minister for Revenue,Relief and Rehabilitation Raman Bhalla,officials said here on Thursday. The government had constituted a sub-committee on October this year to suggest measures for expeditious implementation of the package,they said. As per the notification,the SSB shall be the selection authority for making recruitment/ selection to the non-gazetted posts. The board will conduct a special drive to make selection on the basis of open merit,subject to provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act and the rules made there under. The board,after selecting the candidates,shall forward the list to the revenue department,which will then communicate the details to the departments concerned who shall issue their appointment and posting orders. According to the notification,a committee shall be constituted by the revenue department for making Class-IV appointments. The departments,having competence to make the appointments,shall issue appointment orders only after the selected person reports in the valley and shall allow them to join only after production of various documents,including the agreement in the prescribed form. The appointee,under these rules,shall have to work within the Kashmir Valley and shall not be eligible for transfer outside the Valley under any circumstances. The seniority of the appointees shall be fixed at the places on the posts of their first appointment in that particular grade The government has identified the departments,mentioning therein the number of posts,earmarked for the special recruitment drive,which include 1760 in the education department,234 in social welfare department,190 in relief organisation,191 in finance department,500 in engineering departments,35 in health,90 in revenue and 15 in tourism departments. All the migrants,registered with the relief organisation,including the internally displaced migrants (within the valley) shall be eligible for applying for appointment against these posts. The appointees shall have to execute an agreement with the government that they will serve in the valley against the posts on which appointed and at a place where posted. In case the appointee migrates from the valley again for any reason,whatsoever,shall loose the job without any notice and shall stand terminated. The notification also prescribed the eligibility of the candidates applying for the posts. All the registered migrant unemployed youth shall be eligible for appointment against the posts and they must be within the age prescribed for entry in government services and possess the prescribed qualification and experience for the posts. The Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner for Migrants shall be the designate authority for authentication of the migrant status of the applicant,which shall also ensure that the applicant is a bonafide migrant,it said.
