Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Mar 5: Maintaining that Shadhara Sharief shrine as a symbol of communal harmony, BJP’s State Vice President Vibodh Gupta today said that thousands of devotees from all faiths, irrespective of caste, colour and creed, visit the shrine in a deep faith and with great devotion.
Vibodh said that no single community can claim over the teaching and beliefs of Ghulam Shah as this kind of approach will be against the stature of such a big Saint.
He further said that the people of Rajouri-Poonch feel blessed that the Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) was established in Rajouri under the name and fame of Ghulam Shah. But some people leaving no stone unturned to malign the image of BGSBU by promoting it as an institution belonging to a particular community, Gupta added.
He asked University authorities to frame a new recruitment policy in which preference should be given to Rajouri and Poonch people. “25 percent reservation in recruitment of teaching staff, at par with the reservation in admissions, be given to Rajouri-Poonch residents”, Gupta said.
Felling astonished over the existing recruitment policy, where staff was recruited within and outside the State, Vibodh informed that the BGSBU suffered a lot in past by adopting such practices. “Faculty from outside treat BGSBU’s job as part-time and whenever a lucrative job is offered they quit, as a result of which the studies of the students suffers and it also effect the growth of the BGSBU”, Gupta said.
Vibodh also appealed Higher Education Department to take initiatives so that the people from Rajouri-Poonch, already working in the BGSBU, must be given priority in pursuing higher education in good institution on regular basis.
Criticising Chancellor BGSBU and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for his step motherly treatment towards the University, Gupta said that CM should stop adhocism in BGSBU and make sincere efforts to recruit permanent teaching staff so that the University became a good institution of higher learning.
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