Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 22: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today strongly objected over the poor treatment to ex-servicemen in the revised reservation rules, issued by Social Welfare Department recently.
Spokesperson of BJP, Brig Anil Gupta said the new notification is not only discriminatory but also humiliating for the Ex-servicemen who dedicate their lives to the nation and retire at a very young age to keep the nation’s armed forces fighting fit at all times.
“To offer horizontal reservation and that too for posts up to Rs 10500 whereas the minimum pay scale level1 as per 7th Pay Commission is 18000, hurting the dignity and pride of the Ex-servicemen in Govt job,” he said.
“They (ex-servicemen) had approached the successive Governments including the LG to provide vertical reservation to Ex-servicemen as provided in the neighbouring states, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan which have lesser number of ex-servicemen than our UT,” questioned Brig Gupta.
He further said J&K police has set very discriminatory conditions for enrolment of ex-servicemen. While in the rest of the nation the age of an ex-serviceman for reemployment in a Government job including police and CAPF is considered to be the ‘age at the time of retirement minus the total number of years served in the armed forces’ but J&K police has laid down an age limit of 28 years which is also unfortunate.
BJP demands that not only the stipulation of posts up to Rs 10500 be removed but the reservation be provided across the entire spectrum in class A, B, C and D posts, if vertical reservation cannot be provided for the time being.
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