J&K notifies rehabilitation scheme for family members of govt officials
The administration Wednesday notified the Jammu and Kashmir Rehabilitation Assistance Scheme, 2022 for the dependent family member of a government employee.
The Scheme shall apply to the dependent family member of a government employee who dies in harness, retires on an invalid pension, and dies as a result of militancy-related action or due to enemy action on the Line of Control/International Border within Jammu and Kashmir and is not involved in militancy related activities
“S.O. 429.- In exercise of the powers conferred by Article 309 of the Constitution of India, the Lieutenant Governor is pleased to make the following Scheme may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Rehabilitation Assistance Scheme, 2022”, reads the order issued by Dr. Singla, Secretary to the Government, General Administration Department.
“Dependent Family Member” as per the order stands for spouse; or son/daughter (including adopted son/daughter as permissible under law), brother or sister in the case of an unmarried Government servant who was wholly dependent on the Government servant.
“Government servant” for the purpose of these instructions means a Government servant appointed on regular basis and not one working on daily wage or casual or apprentice or ad-hoc or contract or re-employment basis.
“Administrative Secretary, General Administrative Department shall be competent authority to make Compassionate Appointments and grant monetary compensation under this Scheme.
The Lieutenant Governor through the Chief Secretary in Coordination, as per the Procedure for Transaction of Government Business in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir shall be the competent authority for making compassionate appointments in the case (s) where relaxation (s) is/are involved”, the order reads.
Posts to which such appointments can be made: multi ‘tasking staff or equivalent or lowest non-gazetted cadre posts in the department.
For compassionate appointments applicant should be the dependent family member of the deceased Government employee; the applicant should be eligible and suitable for the post in all respects under the provisions of the relevant Recruitment Rules.
Applicant, who is a Graduate or has a higher qualification, can also be considered for appointment against a lowest non-gazetted post/Multi Tasking Staff post notwithstanding the bar on the higher qualification prescribed in the extant Rules.
For monetary compensation, the applicant should be the dependent family member of the deceased Government employee. The applicant shall be assessed with regard to the Relative Merit Points Assessment Scheme on a 100-point scale and the defendant, who does not meet the standards laid down for compassionate appointment to the government service with reference to RMPAS, shall be considered for grant of monetary compensation.
A person selected for appointment on compassionate grounds shall be adjusted in the recruitment roster against the appropriate category i.e., SC/ST/ OBC/General, depending upon the category to which he/she belongs.
For example, if he belongs to SC category, he will be adjusted against the SC reservation point, if he is ST/OBC, he will be adjusted against ST/OBC point and if he belongs to the General category, he will be adjusted against the vacancy meant for General category.
Subject to the availability of a vacancy in case of compassionate appointment, an application for compassionate appointment/monetary compensation shall be considered and disposed of under the Scheme as far as possible within a year of the receipt of the application/ request and decision taken on merit in each case.
The applicant shall submit the application for compassionate appointment/monetary compensation online under the Jammu and Kashmir Rehabilitation Assistance Scheme, 2022 on the designated portal.
The departments shall not consider requests for a compassionate appointment or grant of monetary compensation of/to the dependents of the deceased who may die in harness or as a result of militancy-related action or due to enemy action on the Line of Control/International Border within Jammu and Kashmir and is not involved in militancy related activities or retires on invalid pension if the same is not made within one year of the death/retirement on an invalid pension of the Government servant.
A person appointed on compassionate ground in a particular year may be placed at the bottom of all the candidates recruited/appointed through direct recruitment, promotion, etc. in that year, irrespective of the date of joining of the candidate on compassionate ground.
The compassionate appointments can be terminated on the ground of non-compliance with any condition stated in the appointment order after providing an opportunity to the compassionate appointee by way of issuing a show cause notice asking him/her to explain why his/her services cannot be terminated for non-compliance of the condition(s) in the offer of appointment and it is not necessary to follow the procedure prescribed in the Disciplinary Rules /Temporary Service Rules for this purpose.
In order to check its misuse, the power of termination of services for non-compliance with the condition(s) in the compassionate appointment shall vest with the General Administration Department.
