BJP again betrays Jammu; implement Singhal Report to dispense justice to Jammu youth: Hari Om

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JAMMU: Terming the Narendra Modi Government’s obnoxious Ordinance on National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) as a direct attack on judiciary and yet another move of anti-Jammu BJP to barter legitimate interests of people of Jammu province, Convenor of Jammu For India (JFI), Prof Hari Om, on Saturday said that the Ordinance, if given an effect to, will deprive about 5,000 talented Jammu youth of their due share in the medical and dental colleges located in J and K.
“The Ordinance is a conspiracy hatched by the Modi Government and PDP-BJP Coalition Government against the apex court and talented youth of the country, including Jammu youth,” said the JFI convenor.
President of India Pranab Mukharjee must reject the Ordinance as it is designed to kill talent, promote mediocrity and further jeopardise the interests of the already rather ignored Jammu youth, said Prof Hari Om. “By bringing obnoxious Ordinance on NEET, the Modi Government has not only upturned the April 28 historic judgment of Supreme Court on one common entrance test across the country for admission to MBBS and BDS courses, but also stabbed the Jammu’s talented youth from the back. The verdict of the Apex Court had been welcomed by people of Jammu province. They had expressed the view that the Jammu youth, which never got their due share in the professional and technical institutions in J and K, especially MBBS and BDS colleges, will get a fair opportunity to prove their worth and academic excellence if J and K was brought under the ambit of NEET. But the separatist-friendly Modi-Government on Friday dashed all their hopes to the ground,” said the JFI convenor in a press conference held here today, adding that BJP issued the Ordinance only to appease separatists and communalists in Kashmir.
Prof Hari Om said that the only way justice could be dispensed to the marginalised and abandoned Jammu youth is implementation of January 13, 1999 Singhal Committee report. The Singhal Committee, he said, had candidly acknowledged that while share of Kashmir in medical colleges in J and K had consistently increased, that of Jammu had consistently declined. He said the three-member panel had recommended that all the seats available in the Jammu-based technical and professional colleges should be made the sole preserve of Jammu youth and those available in the Kashmir-based such institutions be made the sole preserve of Kashmiri youth, saying that was the only alternative available to dispense justice to Jammu youth.
The JFI convenor said the ratio of Kashmiri students and Jammu students in selections for admission to MBBS colleges in 1987 was 46.5 and 53.5 per cent, respectively; in 1988, it was 52.97 and 47.03 per cent, respectively; in 1989, it was 55 and 45 per cent, respectively; in 1990, it was 40 and 60 per cent, respectively; in 1991 and 1993, 48 and 52 per cent, respectively; in 1994, it was 62 and 38 per cent, respectively; in 1995, it was 59 and 41 per cent, respectively; in 1996, it was 64 and 36 per cent, respectively; and in 1997, it was 80 and 20 per cent, respectively. He appealed to the people of Jammu province to stand up and fight out the rabidly anti-Jammu BJP and the Delhi Darbar. He informed that the JFI will organise seminar on ‘Stand up or Perish’ on Sunday at City Palace, Kachi Chawni, Jammu.
Dheeraj Pargal, Devendra Choudhary, Dr Ajay Chrungoo, Sham Lal Bassan, Advo Pushpinder Singh, Dr Agnishekhar, Ajatshatru Sinh Jamwal, Ashok Kumar and Rajesh Dutta were also present.