Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 6: Congress president and MP, Prof Saif-ud Din Soz has sought help from Congress president Sonia Gandhi for granting special exception in Cadre Allocation Policy in favour of the youth from J&K for a period of five years and more for the current batch of 11 candidates selected for the IAS this year.
Prof Soz, who met Mrs Gandhi in Union Capital today informed her that this positive phenomenon of more and more youth getting attracted to a path of peace and prosperity needs to be maintained and promoted.
Explaining details to her, the PCC president said that while from 1990 to 2009 Kashmir valley produced only two RR IAS officers and two IPS officers, the record number of 13 candidates three of them women made it to UPSC Civil Services in 2012, with eight successful candidates from Kashmir valley alone.
Prof Soz told Mrs Gandhi that he also made it clear to Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh that out of the authorized cadre strength of 133 for IAS only five Kashmiris made it as direct recruits from 1960 to 2009.
Explaining further, he informed Congress chief that current number of insider vacancies are not being referred to DoPT and said that the proposed exceptional treatment in cadre allocation policy for J&K for a period of five years at least can reform the present imbalance in the system of administration.
He said Mrs Gandhi assured him her support to the proposal. Earlier last evening Prof Soz met Union Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde and External Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed and sought their support to this proposal.
Prof Soz has also written a letter to Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh in this regard and said that while from 1990 to 2009 Kashmir valley produced only two RR IAS Officers and two IPS officers, in last three years alone more than 25 candidates have made it to UPSC Civil Services Examinations from the State.
The trend is heartening for more than one reason, the letter said, adding the way people have responded to these individual success stories, the amount of news are euphoria that these youngsters have generated and certainly a unique chapter of optimism has been added to Kashmir narrative.
It said the emergence of new role models and youth icons who have not just a professional, but an emotional engagement with the national mainstream augurs well not only for the State, but also furthers the larger cause of the national integration. This success at national level is also looked at as breakdown of traditional stereotype and an assertion of the energies and confidence of Kashmiri youth and this way a deadly blow has been served to traditional rhetoric of mistrust and discrimination against Kashmiris, as a people, it added.
He said that special exception in cadre allocation policy be granted in favour of J&K youth for a period of five years at least, and more so for the current batch so that this positive phenomenon of more and more youth getting attracted to path of peace and prosperity can be maintained and promoted.
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