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| Board for Development of Pahari Speaking People defies pluralistic ethos | | 'Secular' body has only 7 out of 76 employees from minority community | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Oct 16: Notwithstanding tall claims of the State Government that it treats every community, religion and region with equal fairness, the minorities are still at receiving end in Jammu and Kashmir-the only Muslim majority state of India.
In a glaring example of discrimination with minorities in J&K, the State Advisory Board for the Development of Pahari Speaking People has only seven Hindu employees out of its total strength of 76 employed in nine hostels functioning in different locations of the state which were established to provide accommodation to the Pahari speaking students. The neglect of the candidates from minority community is against the very essence and idea of the Board, which claims on its official website that Pahari speaking people have 'peculiar Secular cultural ethos and rites'.
On the contrary, the majority community has as many as sixty-nine employees which exposes the reality of State Government's assertions of being unbiased and not favouring any particular caste, creed or religion.
The documentary evidence in possession of Early Times revealed that the Board is not only selective while giving employment opportunity to the majority community, it also distributed major chunk of key posts to Muslims in nine hostels.
The majority community is serving on as many as 4 Gazetted officers cadre posts while it also got plump share of 10 Non-Gazetted posts out of total number of 11 under this category.
The Hindu community, who got a share of mere 9.21 percent in the total number of employees working in the Board's Hostels, has no Gazetted post to its credit while it has been bestowed with only one Non-Gazetted position, one Class-IV category post and five employees working under the Need Based Workers' group.
The nine hostels including six Boys Hostels located at Poonch, Rajouri, Jammu, Anantnag, Baramulla and Kupwara beside three Girls Hostels situated at Poonch, Rajouri and Kupwara have startling figures of staff strength as far as their religious affiliations are concerned.
The break-up of employees in the Boys Pahari Hostel, Poonch reveals that it has a Gazetted Officer belonging to majority community while it also has two Non-Gazetted employees working in the hostel viz-a-viz a class IV position and six need based workers in its kitty.
Boys Pahari Hostel, Rajouri has got one Class-IV employee from the majority community while it has engaged nine need based workers from the same community and the situation is no different in Boys Pahari Hostel, Jammu where again the majority community rules the roost as in this institution of the Board one Gazetted, a Non-Gazetted and four need based workers are Muslims.
The picture is almost similar in other hostels of the Board as the Boys Pahari Hostels at Anantnag, Baramulla, Kupwara and Girls Pahari Hostels at Poonch, Rajouri and Kupwara major have more strength of majority community employees in comparison to minority community.
While Anantnag Boys Hostel has one Non-Gazetted employee and eight need based workers from majority community, the Boys Hostel Baramulla has single Non-Gazetted employee and six need based workers of the same community.
The Boys Hostel at Kupwara has got one Gazetted employee and six need based workers from the majority community while the Girls Hostel, Poonch has four Non-Gazetted employees and five need based workers from this community.
In Girls Hostel Rajouri, a Gazetted as well as a Non-Gazetted employee besides five need based workers belong to majority community while at Kupwara Girls Hostel only four need based workers have been engaged who all come from majority community. |
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