SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has assigned 29 Accounts Officer probationers to various departments, institutions and treasury offices, giving them independent charge of their respective posts with immediate effect.
The Finance Department issued the order, numbered 329-F of 2026, on October 28, under the authority of Financial Commissioner (Additional Chief Secretary), Finance Department, Shailendra Kumar.
The appointments span several departments and institutions, including the Forest Research Institute, Drug and Food Control Organization, Directorates of Animal Husbandry and Geology and Mining, Directorate of Employment, Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE), Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB) and Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS).
According to the order, Waheed Anjum Qureshi has been posted to the Forest Research Institute, Parray Arsalan Ahad to the Drug and Food Control Organization, Farha Zahoor to the Directorate of Animal Husbandry, Kashmir, and Tawseef Ahmad Shah to the Directorate of Geology and Mining.
Gagan Spolia has been assigned to the Directorate of Employment, while Tahir Shafi Bhat has been posted as Treasury Officer, Karnah.
Other postings include the Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, the Office of the Deputy Director of Audit and Inspections, Kashmir, SKIMS Medical College, Bemina, the Deputy Commissioner’s Office in Anantnag, the Directorate of Disaster Management, the Directorate of Rural Development, Kashmir, and SKIMS, Soura.
The deployment also covers the Lakhanpur-Sarthal Tourism Development Authority, the SSP Office in Doda, the Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Jammu and Kashmir, and the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), Jammu and Kashmir.
Several probationers have been assigned to treasury offices in Mendhar, Hiranagar, Ramkote and Bhaderwah. Other postings include Ranbir Government Press, Jammu, the General Provident Fund Police Cell at Police Headquarters, the Accountancy Training Institute, Srinagar, the Directorate of Agriculture, Jammu, and the Commercial Wing of Jammu and Kashmir Power Transmission Corporation Limited.
The order provides for appointments against vacant posts as well as positions where officers had been holding additional charge. In some cases, the probationers will replace officers promoted as In-charge Chief Accounts Officers.
The officer assigned to JKBOSE, Jammu, will assume charge after the incumbent retires on October 31, 2026. Officers promoted as In-charge Chief Accounts Officers have been directed to await further posting orders from the Directorate General of Accounts and Treasuries.
