200 Employees Demand Transfer From Ladakh.

Around 200 employees in the Ladakh UT are seeking transfer from the region having completed a period of three to five years.

The employees were posted in the Ladakh region before the bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir for a time bond period of a maximum of two years but have not been repatriated by their concerned departments thus far.

At least 200 employees of different departments including that of the Health Department, Education, PDD, Finance and Planning, Home Department PO, PWD (R&B), and PHE are posted in the region.

Talking to news agency KNO, the employees said that the authorities are forcing them to suffer when most of them have already rendered services of more than three to five years in the Ladakh region.

The aggrieved employees said they have made their representations to the highest authorities possible including the LGs of both the union territories but so far no concrete step has been initiated.

Dr Krishan Kant the president of the Non-local Employees Association said, “Our repatriation is possible only if the concerned departments provide the substitutes to the GAD well in time and the justice is delivered to nearly 200 employees posted in the Ladakh region for the past as many years.”

Kant said the authorities must consider the substitutes on time before September 30 and transfer all the non-local employees from the Ladakh region failing of which they will be forced to hit the streets and protest against them.

The employees said that many of them are facing serve personal issues including the family compulsions and health worries.

Earlier the government had extended the time for those employees who are not interested in working in Ladakh UT.