{"id":303224,"date":"2018-09-25T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T09:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303224"},"modified":"2018-09-25T09:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T09:36:53","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-government-announces-salary-incentive-to-election-staff-spos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-government-announces-salary-incentive-to-election-staff-spos\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir government announces salary incentive to election staff, SPOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_302030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302030\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302030\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/JK-police-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/JK-police-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/JK-police-416x420.jpg 416w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/JK-police.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday announced salary incentive to its employees deputed for election duties and a likely increase in pay packets of special police officers (SPOs), Chief Secretary B.V.R. Subrahmanyam said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing the media, he said 400 additional paramilitary companies would reach the state to provide security for the conduct of municipal elections beginning on October 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Chief Secretary claimed that the increasing tendency to resign from their job among the SPOs was restricted to some areas in the Kashmir Valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, &#8220;soon the monthly salaries of the SPOs will be enhanced. You will see a quantum jump in the salaries of the SPOs in a day or two.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Subrahmanyam said the urban body polls will include 79 municipalities, including two municipal corporations of Jammu and Srinagar cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The election to Panchayats would be held in 9 phases on November 17, 20, 24, 27, 29 and December 01, 04, 08 and 11. And those to the Municipal bodies would be conducted in four phases on 08, 10, 13 and 16 October 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the National Conference and the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) \u2014 have decided to stay away from the polls citing the central government\u2019s stand on Article 35-A, which gives special status to the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday announced salary incentive to its employees deputed for election duties and a likely increase in pay packets of special police officers (SPOs), Chief Secretary B.V.R. Subrahmanyam said. Addressing the media, he said 400 additional paramilitary companies would reach the state to provide security for the conduct of municipal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":302030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[5205,1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303225,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303224\/revisions\/303225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}