AIGETOA writes to PGM (Personnel), BSNL CO New Delhi for implementation of clauses 3(a) of the Transfer Policy for Jammu & Kashmir Circle executives and reconsideration of long stay inter-circle transfers. The recent transfer orders are not in line with the Transfer Policy, particularly clauses 3(a) and 3(b), and overlook the unique and high-risk service conditions prevailing in the Jammu & Kashmir Circle.
The J&K remains a disturbed and sensitive region where executives serve under extremely difficult terrain, harsh climate, and security challenges, often facing serious risks while ensuring telecom services in hard and unpopular stations. AIGETOA recalled that based on recommendations made as early as 2008, specific tenure norms for hard and hardest stations were approved by the Corporate Office in 2009, and J&K executives were accordingly kept out of All-India long stay lists for several years.
AIGETOA has emphasized that hard tenure service, particularly in J&K, cannot be treated as less onerous than semi-hard tenure, especially when policy benefits are already extended to semi-hard stations. In the interest of fairness and natural justice, such service should be treated as a break in circle stay under clause 3(a) of the Transfer Policy.