Anganwadi workers seek review of seniority list for promotion

Our Correspondent

Mandi Ahmedgarh, April 25

Anganwadi workers, who have been waiting for their promotion to the post of supervisor, have urged the higher authorities of the Department of Social Security, Women and Child Development Punjab to review the seniority list.

They said, “The seniority list has been prepared by considering the degree issued by unrecognised universities and boards.”

They said if the process of promotion was not checked, it would deprive many anganwadi workers of their right to promotion on the basis of marks obtained in graduation, postgraduation and additional postgraduation from the recognised universities in Punjab.

“Surprisingly , the department has already issued notices to a large number of supervisors, who were promoted on the basis of the degrees obtained from unrecognised universities outside the state,” the workers said.

The anganwadi workers led by Meena Kumari and Manjit Sharma of Kanganwal village apprehended that they would be deprived of their right to promotion if the current provisional list was considered.

The perusal of the list revealed that the merit had been prepared by considering the degree of recognised universities of the state at par with those obtained from unrecognised universities situated in other states of the country.

It also revealed that at least 20 out of first 100 candidates had submitted their graduation degrees from other universities outside the state.

Even if the universities and degrees are not fake, there is a wide gap between the marks obtained by students of universities situated in Punjab and those situated in other states.

Similarly, only 16 candidates of the general category out of 100 had submitted postgraduate degrees from a university situated in Punjab and 31 candidates claimed the merit on the basis of postgraduate degree received from a university situated in other states.

Of the first 100 candidates, only 21 candidates submitted some additional postgraduate degree or diploma from a university situated in the state and 30 submitted certificates received from other state university.

Though none of officials at regional offices of the department came forward to comment on the issue. It has come to the fore that some of the supervisors promoted in 2014 were issued show-cause notices for submitting degrees obtained from other state universities.