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| Oops! In advt for international event, SKIMS separates JK from India | | Invites separate registrations from 'Indian' delegates, J&K delegates | | Abdul Majid
Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 12: Is J&K not part of India? Well, authorities at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura do not think so-at least in the publicity campaign for an international conference which they are hosting next month.
Call it a mistake or negligence, but the Valley's sole super-specialty hospital has apparently projected JK as separate from India for the event titled VIIIth ASCOMS SUMMIT: Controversies in Bariatric Surgeries Revisited. The 2-day event is scheduled to commence on June 6.
In the registration section of the advertisement published in Srinagar dailies on May 10, the entry fee for interested delegates for the event has been classified as: "International faculty: 350 USD", "Indian delegates: 5000 INR" and "For workshop J&K delegates: INR 1000." Department of Upper GI Hepato-biliary & Pediatric Surgery SKIMS has been shown as conference secretariat.
The controversial classification of delegates has erupted at a time when the government is seriously tracking developments "which could affect the fabric of national integration."
But while the local medicos have taken it as a "routine", some elsewhere are annoyed. A medico from the national capital New Delhi who went across the advertisement said it was disgusting to read the classification of delegates. "How can you show Indian and J&K delegates different? Ideally it should have been 'state level delegates, national level delegates and international delegates," the medico said. He said such language "means disrespect towards national integration."
But medicos from the host hospital have their own take on the issue. "This should neither be treated as mistake or any offence because this is how we have been categorizing any event delegates for decades," said a SKIMS medico, who in the previous years has coordinated in hosting of such events.
Insiders said separatist sentiment looms large in the hospital. "Separatist sentiment and medical sciences have often gone hand-in-hand in this hospital because even those medicos who had confirmed connections with separatists and militant outfits were given promotions after promotions," the insiders said.
SKIMS Director, Dr Showat Ali Zargar could not be contacted for his comment. |
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