SRINAGAR, FEBRUARY 25: Director, Food Civil supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, Kashmir, rebuts the news item uploaded in WhatsApp group of CNS where allegations regarding illegal promotion in lieu of bribe has been made.
He said, ‘news circulated is totally fake’, added that the department conducted recently DPC where 40 to 50 employees were promoted strictly as per recruitment rules (1975 amended in 1999) of the department.
Besides, 50-60 employees were given time bound (in-situ) promotion strictly as per the rules.
He said that some employees of the department calling self styled Graduate employees Association and other associations want themselves to be promoted in violation of recruitment rules of the department.
He said their demands are not in consonance with the departmental requirement rules. He added that it is out of frustration that such baseless allegations are made against the department.
He called concocted news reports uploaded on social media without verification by CNS an unfortunate thing and said that necessary actions as the law shall be taken against social media persons who uploaded fake news.