Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 19: Prof Bhim Singh, chief patron of National Panthers Party, who is also member of National Integration Council has urged Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh for his immediate intervention to save the career of thousands of students from J&K who were admitted in various Technical Institutions in the country under Prime Minister’s Free Educational Scheme.
“The college authorities everywhere wherever the students from J&K were admitted have closed their admissions and demanded fee to be paid without any delay”, he maintained.
Prof Bhim Singh in his letter addressed to the Prime Minister on the subject said that the future of nearly 7,000 students from J&K is at stake and the Prime Minister’s intervention is necessary to save their future.
He further stated in his letter that some of the students approached him last evening and disclosed that they have been physically forced out of the colleges in Haryana on the pretext that their college fees have not been paid by them. They were not even allowed to appear in their first semester.
“The boys from Jammu studying in Haryana got shelter in a Gurudwara in New Delhi whereas those from the Valley had to seek shelter in Jama Masjid”, he said, adding this is highly disappointing that the students of J&K have been treated this way.
Singh alleged that first the Scheme was evolved with total non-application of mind and secondly, this also made the people of Jammu Pradesh and Ladakh to believe that the Central Government has been treating the youth of Jammu and Ladakh as step children.
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