ASESE&UA protests re-employment of an SE at Power Deptt

GANGTOK, 20 May: The All Sikkim Educated Self-Employed & Unemployed Association [ASESE&UA] has questioned the State government’s decision to re-employ a Superintending Engineer [Electrical], Energy & Power Department, against whom, the association informs, a corruption case was under investigation with the Vigilance Police.
This move [to reemploy the SE for a third time when he retire on 31 May 2011] was also protested by the Sikkim-unit of the BJP yesterday and has also caused some resentment in the Power Department where a signature campaign is reportedly being attempted to convince the Government that it was being misled into reemploying the said officer. The pen-down strike claimed by some sections is not being proposed yet, officers at the Department inform.
An ASESE&UA team led by its president, Nawin Kiran, went to the Power Department to discuss the issue with the Secretary, who was not in station, and could not meet other senior officers since they were busy in a meeting, it was informed today.
“Although we were not able to meet the Secretary but we interacted with the civil engineers of the department, who expressed dissatisfaction with the re-employment,” the ASESE&UA president said.
He also questioned the government that why it has re-employed an engineer whose Vigilance case is still under investigation.
The association team also plans to meet the concerned officer at his office in Topakhani.
“Seeing the reaction of the engineers today, we find that the mission of the association against the service extension and re-employment is succeeding and now the people are also coming out against it,” Mr Kiran said.