GS Asgotra
Early Times Report
jammu, Feb 17: The amendment in SRO-43 of 1994, has adversely affected families of those who laid their lives leaving behind kith and kin too young to be benefitted by the provisions of SRO within next 5 years.
The SRO which was amended in 2014 provides an opportunity to the kith and kin of those, who died while discharging their duties in militancy affected areas of the state; but nearly 152 kith and kin from martyrs' families have been waiting for jobs for the last many years.
However, the same SRO provides five and half years time to martyrs families to get the job in place of their family member, if he/she is under age; but those who are not adult even after five years, are the worst suffers and the number of these suffers of administration apathy has reached 152.
Javid Ahmed Shah, one of the aggrieved among 152 martyrs' families said that when his father, Gh. Mohammed Shah died battling with militants, he was only 10 years old. "During that time the Police department had promised my mother that when I attain the age of 18, I will get the job", he said, adding that to his utter dismay, since he reached 18, he has knocked every door of department but all in vain.
"It is a very genuine question, how an underage son or daughter of police martyr will get the job. Due to faulty SRO, more than one hundred kith and kin of police martyrs have been shuttling between police and secretariat office but all in vain", he said.
All the laws and rules are framed and enacted for the betterment of public and the family members of martyrs but SRO 43 has been depriving the gullible families from their due share. "On one hand we lost of family member to the service of the nation and police department but same police department now gives us step motherly treatment when it came to give job in place of our lost family member", he lambasted.
An official of Police department informed that it was not an isolated case but time and again they forwarded the files to Home department but same have been rejected time and again. "Rahul Rishi's father was a police personnel who died in a road accident when he was on way to Jammu to attend a court hearing along with 40 other police personnel on December 4, 2000 and all of them had died", he rued, adding that the kith and kin of several martyrs were still suffering.
They appealed Governor NN Vohra to make an amendment in the SRO 43 so that deserving families would get justice.
An official of Police department who was not authorized to speak to media said that the amended SRO-43 was a major hurdle for these families. |
