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| Out of 662, its 9 hostels have 36 minority occupants | | Pahari Advisory Board’s biases | | Kunal CShrivatsa
JAMMU, Oct 17: The state advisory board for the development of pahari speaking people is alleged to have set yet another example of biases towards Jammu region.
The documents available with Early Times reveal that in nine hostels of the board as many as 626 Pahari speaking students belonging to majority community have been provided accomodation facility.
In comparison, a paltry 36 students from minorities have been granted permission to stay in these hostels which means the share of minority community is just minuscule out of the total 662 allotments made to extend benefit to the wards of Pahari speaking people.
The figures indicating the number of students from Class 6 to the level of Post Graduation (PG) uphold that the Board’s Boys Hostels at Poonch, Rajouri, Anantnag, Baramulla, Kupwara and Jammu have majority community’s dominance while it also maintains a supremacy in the Girls Hostels located at Poonch, Rajouri and Kupwara.
The strength of students housed at Boys Pahari Hostel (BPH), Poonch studying between Class 6 to 12 stand at 150 out of which 148 are Muslims while one each belong to Hindu and Sikh communities.
In BPH Hostel Rajouri, the number of minority community students from Class 6 to 12 is somewhat better as 15 Hindu students have been allotted accommodation out of total 147 inmates.
The BPH Hostels at Anantnag, Baramulla and Kupwara have accommodated 48, 40 and 50 students respectively who all belonging to majority community while there is no existence of students from the minority communities at these accommodations which is understandable as such areas of the state have less numbers of either Pahari speaking Hindus or Sikhs residing there.
In Girls Pahari Hostel (GPH) Poonch, all 50 inmates are Muslims while the GPH Rajouri has 32 majority community students as against only 5 of minority Hindu community and GPH Kupwara again has all 50 students from majority community.
The state of affairs at BPH Jammu has no difference at all as here also the majority community students get a preferential treatment with as many 76 Muslim students ranging between Class 6 upto the level of PG have been accommodated while the number of Hindu students stand only at 14 out of total 90 inmates.
Several Pahari speaking persons are raising fingers on the queer ways of functioning of the State Advisory Board for the Development of the Pahari Speaking People and its quagmire administrative control in running its establishments across the state.
Taking a dig at the alleged arbitrary selection of students to accommodate them at various hostels operated by the Board, a prominent Pahari figure wishing anonymity alleged that the Board is certainly discriminatory against minorities.
“While floating advertisements for the hostel accommodation, the Board administration publishes them in lesser known newspapers which are not widely circulated in different parts of the state and are not easily available at newspaper stalls…The ill-intended persons in the Board do not want a fair selection due to which needy students do not get an opportunity of having accommodations at Pahari Hostels,” he alleged.
“Hindus comprise nearly 40-45 percent of the total Paharis living in the state...The negligible presence of minority community students in Pahari hostels suggests as if only majority community people are Pahari speakers and the minority Hindus do not use Pahari as medium to communicate in areas where the language is predominantly in vogue…The discrimination with minority Pahari speaking students is gross injustice with them,” he added. |
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