SIU study declares staff surplus at NIS

PATIALA, MARCH 24: About one hundred employees working in the Netaji Subhash National Institute of Sports NIS here have been declared s...

PATIALA, MARCH 24: About one hundred employees working in the Netaji Subhash National Institute of Sports NIS here have been declared surplus by the Staff Inspection Unit SIU. The three-day study of the NIS working was conducted recently.

According to Krat Singh, president and Tarsem Thapar, general secretary of the NIS Employees Association, the SIU had already submitted its report, which had been accepted by the Sports Authority of India SAI without making any review or critical examination endangering the future of the employees.

They said that they apprehended that the report was being implemented shortly causing scare and a feeling of insecurity among the employees whose posts have been shown surplus by the SIU.

The two employees leaders alleged that the NIS was being discriminated against by the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports and the SAI. Most of the work had already been transferred to the SAI headquarters at Delhi from Patiala.

Similarly, they said, a number of regular diploma courses were shifted from NIS to other SAI centres in the past.

They said that the corporate office had decided to transfer all the central schemes with immediate effect from Patiala to Delhi, though these were being implemented here successfully for the last about 25 years.

The SAI, they pointed out, had earlier in 1988-89 also transferred these central schemes to Delhi.

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However, these schemes failed in Delhi, and were allocated back to the NIS Patiala within two years.

The employees leaders said that these developments had caused ripples and the employees were feeling perturbed.

They have appealed to the Prime Minister, Chief Minister of Punjab, members of parliament, and the SAI authorities not to implement the report of the SIU. And not to allow transfer of the central schemes to Delhi.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the NIS Employees Association held here yesterday, threatened to resort to agitation and will not allow the authorities to implement these decisions. The employees also sported black badges.

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In a related development, Punjab Olympic Association, president and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa has called upon Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Uma Bharti not to implement the decision of the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports and the SAI, to shift all central schemes, and sports scholarships, including North East Festival from Patiala to Delhi.