Sir,
It is a well known fact that J&K PSC is a higher Competitive Authority to conduct various examinations of different positions at higher level especially for Gazetted level posts of state of Jammu and Kashmir. The names for the such positions are inappropriately kept as KAS , KPS and KCS by the then Chairman of the J&K PSC or erstwhile Governments at the behest of Kashmir centric rulers who deliberately omitted J (Jammu) before K (Kashmir) thereby imposing hegemony of Kashmir based rulers. The name of the Jammu province was were ignored by the J&K Public Service Commission. It may be said here that the issue of remaining these exams as JKAS, JKPS, and JKCS had been taken up a in past on several occasions but in vain. Authorities didn’t pay any heed to correct this grave anamoly and continued with the same acronyms with impunity. Missing ‘J’is not only an issue but this shows discriminatory approach towards Jammu province.
It also puts a question mark on leadership of Jammu province who have not pursued the matter with concerned authorities. Kashmir Province as well as Kashmiri leadership does not represent the aspirations of the people of the whole of the state . The provinces of Jammu and Ladakh were always marginalised as non entities thereby were always discriminated on all walks of life . Now Since there is President’s Rule in the state therefore the Governor is requested for changing the acronyms to JKAS,JKPS and JKCS to put the record straight . This will go a long way to represent the aspirations of the people of the entire State of the Jammu and Kashmir .
Ronik Sharma
Jammu
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