Early Times Report
Jammu, May 21: Terming the Narendra Modi Government's obnoxious ordinance on National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) as a direct attack on judiciary and yet another move of anti-Jammu BJP to barter legitimate interests of people of Jammu province, convenor of Jammu for India (JFI), Prof Hari Om, on Saturday said that the ordinance, if given an effect to will deprive about 5000 talented Jammu youth of their due share in the medical and dental colleges located in J&K.
"The ordinance is a conspiracy hatched by the Modi Government and PDP-BJP coalition government against the apex court and talented youth of the country, including Jammu youth," said the JFI convenor in an emergency press conference held here today.
He said that President of India Pranab Mukharjee must reject the ordinance as it is designed to kill talent and further jeopardize the interests of the already rather ignored Jammu youth.
"By bringing 'obnoxious' ordinance on NEET, the Modi Government has not only upturned the April 28 historic judgment of Supreme Court on one common entrance test across the country for admission to MBBS and BDS courses, but also stabbed the Jammu's talented youth from the back.
The verdict of the Apex Court had been welcomed by people of Jammu province who had expressed the view that the Jammu youth, which never got their due share in the professional and technical institutions in J&K, especially MBBS and BDS colleges, will get a fair opportunity to prove their worth and academic excellence if J&K was brought under the ambit of NEET. But the separatist-friendly Modi-Government on Friday dashed all their hopes to the ground," said the JFI convenor, adding that BJP issued the ordinance only to appease separatists and communalists in Kashmir.
Further Prof Hari Om said that the only way justice could be dispensed to the marginalized and abandoned Jammu youth is implementation of January 13, 1999 Singhal Committee report. "The Singhal Committee,' he said, had candidly acknowledged that while share of Kashmir in medical colleges in J&K had consistently increased, that of Jammu had consistently declined.
He said the three-member panel had recommended that all the seats available in the Jammu-based technical and professional colleges should be made the sole preserve of Jammu youth and those available in the Kashmir-based such institutions be made the sole preserve of Kashmiri youth, saying that was the only alternative available to dispense justice to Jammu youth.
To substantiate his words, he cited the ratio of Kashmiri students and Jammu students in selections for admission to MBBS colleges in 1987 was 46.5 and 53.5%, respectively. "In 1988, it was 52.97 and 47.03%, respectively; in 1989, it was 55 and 45%, respectively; in 1990, it was 40 and 60%, respectively; in 1991 and 1993, 48 and 52%, respectively; in 1994, it was 62 and 38%, respectively; in 1995, it was 59 and 41%, respectively; in 1996, it was 64 and 36%, respectively; and in 1997, it was 80 and 20%, respectively, he added.
The JFI convener appealed to the people of Jammu province to stand up and fight out the rabidly anti-Jammu BJP and the Delhi Darbar, saying that their real enemy is the Indian political class and that they will get completely destroyed in case they remained dormant or devoid of political activity any longer. "JFI will organize seminar on 'Stand up or Perish' on Sunday, the May 22, (11 am. to 2 pm), at City Palace, Kachi Chowni, Jammu, he added.
Among others present during the press conference were Dheeraj Pargal, Devendra Choudhary, and others. |
