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| For Jammu, crumbs from Kashmir table | | Plight Of Youth: | | Early Times Report
jammu, Mar 19: The youth of Jammu are frustrated and dissatisfied. They are angry with the system. They have several grouses against the State authorities. Two of them are fundamental. One is that the employment policy, which has been in effect since 1948, is Kashmir-centric. This grievance is genuine.
The rate of unemployment in Jammu is more than 69 per cent while in Kashmir it is less than 30 per cent. Similarly, the proportion of residents of Kashmir and Jammu in the official service sector is approximately 75:25. There are almost 4.5 lakh employees working in Government and semi-Government establishments in the State, but the number of employees from Jammu is not more than one lakh.
The other complaint is that the presence of Jammu youth in Government-run and Government-aided technical and professional institutions, such as medical colleges, is negligible. Technical and professional institutions located in Kashmir, including the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology have become the sole preserve of students from the valley. The latter also get a disproportionate share in Jammu-based educational and training institutions.
The youth of Jammu want the State Government to implement the 1999 RP Singhal Committee Report on admission to technical and professional institutions in the State. The Committee had acknowledged that Jammu youth hardly got their due share in such institutions.
The Committee, which was set up in 1998, after careful scrutiny of the MBBS/BDS selection lists of the past eight years, noted that Jammu's share in medical colleges had dwindled consistently through the 1990s. It was 60 per cent in 1990, 52 per cent in 1991, 38 per cent in 1993, 41 per cent in 1994, 41 per cent in 1995, 36 per cent in 1996, 20 per cent in 1997 and a paltry 17 per cent in 1998 (Review and Reform of Entrance Test for Medical and Technical Courses in Jammu & Kashmir). The situation remains much the same today.
The three-member committee found a way to meet the demand of Jammu youth without hurting the interests of the valley youth. It recommended that the only way to maintain regional balance in admissions to technical and professional institutions was to adopt admission rules, as followed by the University of Jammu and the University of Kashmir, under the Kashmir & Jammu Universities Act of 1969.
"As is the existing practice for admissions to polytechnic courses where one Common Entrance Test is held, but the selection list is declared separately for the two divisions, the Competent Authority may hold one Common entrance Test for the two divisions for Medical and Engineering Courses, but the selection lists may be separately issued for the two divisions. The admissions in these colleges (Government as well as Private) should be made by the respective Universities in accordance with the prevalent admission rules under their Acts.
The seats in Jammu Colleges (Medical as well as Engineering) should be earmarked for candidates belonging to Jammu region and those in Kashmir Colleges be earmarked for candidates belonging to Kashmir region", the report recommended. The report, which was welcomed by the people of Jammu, is gathering dust in the Kashmiri-dominated civil secretariat. Remember that the Farooq Abdullah Government had been persuaded to set up the committee after MBBS and BDS selection lists were published in 1998. These were considered to be highly biased and the people of Jammu were up in arms. |
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