The composite regional centre is an important Department functioning under Ministry of Social Justice Government of India . It is an important hope of handicapped masses .
But , the post of current Director has already raised many eyebrows .
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response to the advertisement, six applications were received and the competent authority to scrutinize these applications constituted a five-member committee.
On 26th of June 2020, after scrutinizing the applications, two candidates were declared eligible and four others were stated non-eligible for certain reasons.
Dr. Mir Zafar Iqbal was one of these four non-eligible candidates and as stated by the Screening Committee, Mir’s Post Graduate Degree is not recognized by RCI but surprisingly, somehow the Director Pt. DUNIPPD managed to appoint him as Director, CRC Srinagar on deputation basis.
Moreover, as per Deputation Rules, candidates with 9 years of qualifying service along with vigilance clearance certificate are only eligible for any post on deputation basis in Autonomous Body, Trust, Society, PSU etc. Whereas Dr. Mir—who was appointed Assistant Professor CRC Srinagar on 24th of December 2014— had around 5 years of experience at the time application for the post was applied.
Pertinent to mention that the Jammu and Kashmir Handicapped Association has already raised many queries related to it, in an Right to Information act but received unsatisfactory response and they are planning to go for first appeal to get proper response.
When we contacted recently senior officials in the Ministry of Social Justice they declined to comment on this issue .
Dr. Zafar has post graduate degree in normal psychology which is not recognised /aproved by RCI (Rehabilitation council of India) which is mandatory for heading Director CRC.
