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Kashmir Junior Assistants demand promotion orders after clearing SATC

  • Mansoor Peer By Mansoor Peer
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  • 22 Sep 2025

Srinagar, Sept 22: Junior Assistants from all ten districts of Kashmir Division, who successfully cleared the Secretariat Assistant Training Course (SATC), have appealed Education Minister, Secretary Education, and Director School Education Kashmir to issue their long-pending promotion orders to the post of Senior Assistant. A group of Junior Assistants said they have fulfilled all requirements, having cleared the SATC examination held in July–August 2024, with results declared by the J&K Public Service Commission on 25 April 2025. They said a Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) meeting held on 14 June 2025 approved promotions for 158 eligible Junior Assistants against the same number of lien-free vacancies. However, they added that despite this, the promotion orders remain withheld, causing widespread resentment. The Junior Assistants strongly reject the excuse of a court stay on the seniority list of Senior Assistants, clarifying that the case pertains only to promotions from Senior Assistants to Head Assistants and has no bearing whatsoever on their own promotions. "This unrelated litigation is being misused to stall our due rights, even as the Directorate itself has admitted to an acute shortage of clerical staff (Tribunal Diary No. 3022/2025)," they alleged. “This inordinate delay is not just unfair, it is crippling office work and demoralising the workforce. Justice delayed is justice denied,” the aspirants said in a joint statement. They urged the Directorate to release the DPC minutes and issue the promotion/adjustment orders before the retirement of the current Director in October. If the issue remains unresolved, we will be left with no option but to seek legal remedy, they warned. Director School Education Kashmir, Dr G N Itoo did not respond to the repeated phone calls and text messages from the Rising Kashmir correspondent.      

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