JAMMU: Chastising the BJP-PDP combine for doling the worst ever discrimination to the youth of Jammu region in the matter of employment, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP and former Minister, on Saturday announced to organise the highly dis-enchanted and deprived educated youth of the region for a decisive battle against the biased and prejudicial polices of Coalition Government.
He regretted that the share of Jammu region youth had faced terminal decline in employment after the formation of BJP-PDP alliance with all their shrill cries of injustice failing to catch any government attention.
He said that it was universally being acknowledged that with a lion’s share in almost all State level government jobs going the Kashmir way, the Jammu region youth were made to content with negligible positions and that too under reserved categories.
Making a particular mention of the select list of constable operators published a couple of days ago, Singh lamented that out of 642 candidates selected in the General category from the entire State, only 103 candidates comprising of just 16 per cent were selected from Jammu region and the rest 84 per cent had gone in the kitty of Kashmir which was highly shocking and prejudiced in nature. Likewise, 10,000 posts of SPOs sanctioned by the Government of India for J and K earlier were out rightly assigned to various districts of Kashmir region with full consent of BJP justifying that the decision had been taken in national interest, Harsh regretted.
He accused the BJP ministers in the J and K cabinet for meekly surrendering the posts to Kashmir at the cost of Jammu youth only for the hunger of power.
Singh further stated that the deprivation of Jammu in the appointment of SPOs was followed by its neglect in subsequent selections made in the Departments of Education, Health, Planning besides others as well. He said that highly biased selection process became evident from the select list of Assistant Professors issued by PSC in the disciplines of History, Biotechnology, Computer Sciences, Physics, English, Psychology where Jammu region got negligible share in the list despite maximum number of candidates shortlisted from it.
Revealing the statistics, Singh said that out of 34 selected candidates in History, nine belonged to Jammu region, seven candidates out of 26 in Physics, nine in Psychology out of 27 and likewise in other subjects.
He further unveiled the highly biased selections in Economics and Statistics Directorate, wherein out of 26 candidates selected for Junior Statistical Assistants only one belonged to Jammu region. And in Health and Medical Education department, out of 123 selections of consultants in Radiology, Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT, Orthopaedics, Gynaecology, Pathology and Paediatrics only 23 belonged to Jammu region, Harsh divulged.
He said that despite huge public cry against such injustice the mandated leaders of Jammu failed to respond or react.
Disconcerted over the discrimination meted out to educated unemployed youth of Jammu region, Harsh said that the BJP leaders in a bid to keep their valley masters in good humour had succumbed over the issue of State dispensation providing ex-gratia and govt. jobs to the NoKs of slain subversives and militants including thousand of stone pelters responsible for Kashmir unrest.
He wondered over the ‘black governance’ of sinister alliance where educated youth were left in lurch while the militants and criminals were glorified and provided employment with honour.
He cautioned the mandated leaders of Jammu region to ensure justice to the youth by ensuring them a fair deal in the selection process or else Panthers party along with the aggrieved young fraternity would launch a mammoth agitation to rout the corrupt power hungry leaders.