Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 4: An emergency meeting of All Jammu and Kashmir Kissan Union was held here today to discuss the arbitrarily advertised posts of teachers in the State thereby utterly discriminating the Jammu region.
“Out of the total posts advertised, about 85 percent posts have been allotted to all the districts of Kashmir, whereas, only 15 percent of the total seats have been allotted to Jammu province and that too to four districts of Jammu. No posts have been advertised for the districts of Kishtwar, Doda, Poonch, Jammu, Ramban, Leh and Kargil,” the meet observed.
The participants were bitter on the repeated acts of discrimination with Jammu and reminded that in the recent selection for eleven posts of Munsiff Magistrate, there were only two candidates from Jammu region and nine from Kashmir region.
The meeting was chaired by Advocate Ashok Sharma, former legislator whereas Jahangir Mir, former Vice Chairman of J&K Legislative Council was the chief guest on the occasion.
Jahangir Mir, in his remarks, said that communication gap hinders Jammuites to fight collectively against injustice. “We are not against any region but we should assert and raise voice for the justice,” he said and lauded Maharaja era of the State.
Ashok Sharma, in his concluding remarks, termed the discrimination with Jammu region in appointment of teachers a very serious issue. He endorsed the views and suggestions of the participants and said that a concrete strategy will soon be devised to fight this issue tooth and nail.
Vinod Sharma, political leader and activist stated that 1800 schools of Jammu have been abolished by merging various schools. He said that infact because of remoteness of the Jammu region, there should be more schools and teachers in Jammu province.
B C Raina, a trade unionist, said there are large number of posts in Jammu province which are vacant and need to be filled up immediately. He said all merged schools should be segregated.
Other, who addressed, included Advocate Khilari Lal Kouran, Advocate Ashwani Sharma, Capt L K Sharma.
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