Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 9: Strongly condemning the successive State Govts for terming the Administrative Services of J&K as KAS, KPS and KCS in official records, chairman of JKNPP and former minister Harsh Dev Singh has sought the rectification of anomalous situation by duly incorporating Jammu region’s name in the abbreviations for the said services.
In a letter to Chief Minister, Mufti Mohd Sayeed, the JKNPP leader has appealed for renaming the said Administrative Services as JKAS, JKPS and JKCS, respectively, so as to address the sentiments of various aspirational groups and regions. He regretted that the aforesaid services continued to omit the name of Jammu region from their nomenclature by mentioning the same as KAS, KPS and KCS in official records thus hurting the self esteem and pride of Jammu region.
Seeking parity between Jammu and Kashmir on multifarious issues, Harsh Dev deplored that the Dogra land had been subjected to perpetual bias and prejudicial treatment with the said region further facing an identity crisis. He said that the Jammu region not only suffered neglect and deprivation in terms of allocation of resources, employment, Assembly and Parliamentary seats etc but was also being treated as a colony by the Kashmir centric leadership. He said that history bore testimony to the fact that the people of Jammu region who fought for expanding the boundaries of the State had to take agitational course even for the purpose of realizing their constitutional guarantees and legitimate concerns.
He said that NPP had been forcefully agitating at various forums for positioning of Jammu region as an equal partner with Kashmir region in multifarious fields including governance but the sore was allowed to fester. He regretted that the discrimination continued unabated even during the BJP partnered regime.
Urging upon the Chief Minister to address the issue of denied parity, Harsh Dev said that not only the concerns of Jammuites for equal opportunities and equitable resources have to be redressed but the larger issue of Jammu’s honour dignity and pride has also to be addressed in the proper perspective.
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