STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: BJP State spokesperson, Prof. Virender strongly criticized the discrimination met to the people of Jammu region in the matter of selections made by State Public Service Commission (PSC) against various posts in the Health & Medical Education Department and in the Higher Education Department and asked the MLAs/Ministers from Jammu region to take appropriate action to address the genuine grievance of the region in the matter of selections being conducted by State PSC.
He said that out of total 123 selections made in the State Medical Department in 2015, whereas only 23 belonged to Jammu region that constitutes merely 19 per cent of the total posts of consultants in radiology, medicine, ophthalmology, ENT, psychiatry, anesthesiology, orthopedics, gynecology, pathology and pediatrics. He further added that in the same year 15 selections were made in the State Medical College (9 in Jammu Medical College and 5 in Srinagar) against the posts of lecturer out of which only two selected lecturers were from Jammu region which makes 13 per cent of the total posts.
Gupta while drawing attention of State Government towards the selections made in the Higher Education Department as Assistant Professors in the year 2016, said people of Jammu region are facing a worst kind of injustice and added that nine candidates from Jammu region were selected against the 34 selections made (which is 26 per cent); seven candidates were selected against total of 26 in physics discipline, which is 27 per cent; 12 in mathematics against total 25 selected, which is 48 per cent. Gupta pleaded for implementation of the R.P Singhal Committee report of 1999 with regard to admission in the State Professional Colleges and said that as the report the students from the Jammu province and Kashmir province be given admissions in the professional colleges existing in their respective provinces. This has become essential while looking at the sense of deprivation and neglect that is existing among the students and youth of Jammu region, he added.
