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JAMMU: While Kashmir region is getting the lion’s share in employment in the present BJP-PDP Government , the Jammu region regretfully is made to content with a negligible share and that too under reserved categories, said Harsh Dev Singh, JKNPP Chairman and former Minister.
He said while PDP manages major share in government services for Kashmir youth, the BJP is shamelessly flaunting a consolation prize in the form of nominal selectees of Jammu region adding that there have been many occasions where BJP ministers had conceded the posts of Jammu region to Kashmir in a bid to keep their Valley masters in good humour and there by retain their second fiddle role in the govt. He was addressing press conference in Jammu today.
Making a particular mention of the 10,000 posts of SPOs that were sanctioned by the Government of India for J and K, Singh regretted that all such 10,000 posts were assigned to various districts of Kashmir region with full consent of BJP ministers. He said that the BJP ministers in the cabinet not only surrendered the posts to Kashmir at the cost of Jammu youth but made statements justifying that decision as having been taken in national interest.
Harsh 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. He said that there has been a massive student and youth uproar over the biased selections of Lecturers and Assistant Professors having been made during the last two years by the Public Service Commission.
He said that highly prejudiced 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. The selected candidates mainly belonged to categories and the PSC had no option as SCs belong to Jammu region only.
Singh further pointed out highly biased and obnoxious selections in Economics and Statistics Directorate, wherein out of 26 candidates selected for Junior Statistical Assistants only one belonged to Jammu region. He further pointed out that 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.
Asserting that discrimination against educated unemployed youth of Jammu region had aggravated during the BJP-PDP rule, Balwant Singh Mankotia cautioned the mandated leaders of Jammu region to ensure justice to the youth by ensuring them a fair deal in the selection process. He said that the BJP leaders had already belied their hopes and aspirations by succumbing over the issue of ‘New Recruitment Policy’ providing for stipendiary mode of recruitment. He cautioned that with BJP ministers still mum over the persistent disregard of Jammu youth, the volatile situation could explode any moment leading to irreparable damage for which Saffron leaders would be squarely responsible.
