Outsourcing govt jobs is newest political flashpoint in J&Okay | India Information
3 min learnSrinagarJun 29, 2026 05:30 AM IST
After the Individuals’s Democratic Social gathering (PDP) accused it of finishing up “backdoor appointments” by “outsourcing” 25,000 jobs, the Nationwide Convention-led Jammu and Kashmir authorities has hit again, rejecting the allegation and accusing the Opposition social gathering of “spreading misinformation”.
Chief Minister’s Adviser Nasir Aslam Wani, Well being and Training Minister Sakina Itoo and Agriculture Minister Javid Dar addressed a press convention on Sunday morning on the problem.
“Many misconceptions have been unfold concerning our authorities’s employment coverage,” Wani mentioned, including, “It’s our obligation to clear these misunderstandings as a result of it’s our duty to make sure that the general public receives the proper data.”
Whereas rejecting the allegations, Wani mentioned the outsourcing of jobs was a legacy of the PDP-BJP authorities between 2015 and 2018. “Simply as they left us with the implications of the abrogation of Article 370, the lack of statehood, and the division of the erstwhile state…, in addition they left behind this outsourcing system,” he mentioned.
“All the outsourcing framework had been put in place between 2015 and 2018, and all of the appointments now being questioned had been initiated earlier than the 2024 elections (when the present authorities got here to energy). The identical course of has merely continued,” Wani added.
PDP president and former CM Mehbooba Mufti had earlier questioned the federal government, asking why, regardless of having a Public Service Fee (PSC), a Service Choice Board (SSB), and a Departmental Board, there was a have to outsource authorities jobs to contractors. She additionally accused the federal government of hiring companies from exterior J&Okay and giving these contracts to politically linked folks.
Responding to Mufti’s allegations, Sakina Itoo defended the outsourcing of jobs as a “short-term administrative necessity”.
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“Outsourced personnel are engaged over and above the sanctioned power of any division,” Itoo mentioned, including, “The (outsourcing) companies are chosen by the GeM (Authorities e-Market) portal utilizing a clear tendering course of.”
She mentioned renewals and extensions of outsourcing companies had been “merely a continuation of a coverage inherited from earlier governments”.
