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JAMMU: Lambasting BJP for the bias perpetuated against Jammu region after its ascendance to power including the extension in the scope of discrimination to cover the Jammu based KAS officers, Harsh Dev Singh regretted that hardly two KAS officers of Jammu region had been posted as Deputy Commissioners as against 10 Kashmir based KAS officers posted as DCs in 10 different districts.
Giving details, Singh pointed out that out of 10 Kashmir districts, eight were headed by local KAS officers and two by IAS officers with one of the said IAS officers also being a KAS inductee.
“And similarly he said, that out of 10 districts in Jammu region eight were headed by IAS officers and remaining two by KAS officers of the so-called Chenab Valley. Not only that even the Kashmir Divisional Commissioner was also a KAS officer which revealed the priority given by the PDP-BJP Government to local officers of the KAS rank of Kashmir region. Contrarily not a single Jammu based minority community KAS officer had been given such posting despite the BJP’s chest thumping and claiming it to be the champion of Jammu cause,” he added.
Singh also sought the renaming and rechristening of the state administrative services of KAS and KPS as JKAS and JKPS.
Ridiculing the tantrums of BJP Ministers in the recent cabinet meet, Singh accused them of creating hue and cry without a logical understanding of the subject. He said that the opposition of BJP to the proposal of making KPS officers (JKPS) at par with KAS (JKAS) officers was ridiculous. He lamented that the BJP Ministers failed to understand that there was nothing in the proposal that a police officer would be given rank of DIG or IGP. He regretted that half baked BJP Ministers created a ruckus in the cabinet without understating that it was merely grade enhancement for non-uniform, non-descript posts which are listed in the agenda items before the Cabinet and that too for Home Guards, Human Rights, Vigilance, Tele-communication and Forensic sciences.
Singh further castigated the BJP Ministers for their failure to take up the real issue of KPS (JKPS) officers in the cabinet regarding their stagnation for the last eight years. He said that despite the vacancies of at least 50 posts of IPS for induction from the quota of KPS (JKPS), no action had been taken for the last eight years to induct such local officers. He further expressed concern over 75 KPS officers working as SPs for the last 11 years without further promotions with the BJP deliriously oblivious of their concerns.
