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| PM's employment package: Govt is 'insincere' about KPs' return to Valley | | | ET Report
jammu, July 1: Ever since their posting in Valley, the migrant Kashmiri Pandit (KP) employees appointed under the Prime Minister's employment package are subjected to harassment and humiliation by some officers as well as anti-social elements, putting a question mark on return of the KPs to the Valley.
The government had promised sky to these youth while formulating the employment policy for their return to Valley. The major flaw in this recruitment drive, which surfaced later, was the draconian conditions attached to it. As per these conditions, every displaced youth showing willingness to work in the Valley had to fulfill these conditions.
According to sources, one condition in the PM's package was that these employees once appointed in Kashmir can't apply for their transfer to any other part of the state, and even in case the situation deteriorates or they face the terrorist threat still they had to stay put in the Valley and face consequences whatsoever.
Terming it a "great human rights violation" as well as violation of the service rules, the displaced KPs said this draconian law goes against the basic spirit of democracy and the conditions should be revoked.
Sources said besides these draconian conditions, the government delayed the recruitment process under the PM's package which was announced way back in 2008 by the then Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh during his visit to Jammu.
In last over seven years, out of 6000 posts announced under the PM's package, less than 2000 Pandit youth were given jobs in the Valley and they too were subjected to lot of humiliation and harassment by the authorities.
These employees were facing accommodation shortage, and wherever the accommodations have been built there are no proper facilities. Insanitation and lack of drinking water are the common problems faced by the migrant camp inmates at Vessu, Hal (Pulwama), Mattan (Anantnag) in south Kashmir and Hevan (Baramulla) in the north. The KPs took up these issues with authorities concerned a number of times but to no avail.
Moreover, the migrant employees feel totally insecure in the prevailing environs in the Valley and the government has failed to provide adequate security to them.
At Sheikhpora in Budgam, the compound wall of migrant colony has broken from the rear and there is no fun in keeping a police guard at the front gate.
Also, the migrant employees are subjected to many hardships by the authorities to harass them and recently some employees including females were transferred to far off places when the government had earlier assured them that they would be posted in a radius of five kilometers.
This has also generated a lot of resentment among the KP community members putting up at Jammu and other parts of the country and they have warned of an agitation in case the government does not change its behaviour towards the hapless community. |
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