Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 30: The joy of 223 waiting list migrant candidates who were running from pillar to post since 2010 after the Relief and Rehabilitation Ministry did not consider their appointment against the reserved posts knew no bounds with the yesterday’s Cabinet decision approving the appointment of these candidates under PM’s special employment package.
“At last our six year long struggle has yielded fruit said Sunil Dhar a job aspirant’’. He said we fought on every front during these years to seek justice.
We even approached the Union Government and met Central Ministers in then UPA Government as well as the present NDA Government including former Union Home Minster, P Chidabaram and present Union HM Rajnath Singh who also had written a letter to the State Government urging it to concede the demand of the youth, but the Government kept the issue pending for reasons best known to it, though there was earlier also a Cabinet decision regarding absorption of these 223 candidates against dereserved pots said Ajay Kaul another aspirant.
Even the Court of law gave a verdict in the favour of the youth but the same was not implemented for a long time said Kaul. He said many of us had left the private jobs in multinational companies in the hope that we will be selected as there was a Cabinet decision under which the SSRB was given directives to consider the waiting list under reserved category by de-reserving the posts. “But much to the chagrin of the youth the same was not implemented by the concerned authorities ’’ and matter was dragged unnecessarily for years together forcing us to knock the doors of the court.
Commenting on the Cabinet decision RK Bhat president YAIKS said it is a belated decision as several years of the youth were lost in the struggle.
He expressed the hope that the orders of absorbing these 223 youth will be issued without further delay as they have become over-aged already and were in great distress as many of them are married who can’t afford even two times meal.
Manoj Handoo another YAIKS activist said that truth always triumphs and that has happened in this case.
His views were acknowledged by Sanjay Ganjoo and Sunil Kaul who said that to seek justice the youth held protest demonstrations not only in Jammu and Delhi but at Srinagar several times. It is the saga of our struggle which bore fruit at last , they added.
“We called on successive Chief Ministers including Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad as well as Governor several times for justice. Even the Governor also wrote a letter recommending the case strongly in favour of these candidates’’, he added.
T K Bhat another youth activist said that recently a delegation also called on Union Minister of State in PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh and took up the issue with him who while terming the case as genuine assured that he will take up the issue with State Government to provide justice to them.
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