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| Kavinder slams JKSSB over compulsory Urdu Criteria for NT Posts | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 10: Senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister, Kavinder Gupta has taken strong exception to the Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB) for making Urdu language proficiency compulsory in the recently advertised Naib Tehsildar (NT) recruitment. He termed the move as blatant discrimination against the youth of the Jammu region, many of whom do not have Urdu as a subject in their academic curriculum. Speaking at the meeting held at Party Headquarters here today, the BJP stalwart asserted that after the abrogation of Article 370 and the subsequent reorganization of the State into a Union Territory, the linguistic policy of the region has changed. As per The Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020, Hindi, Dogri, English, Urdu, and Kashmiri have all been recognized as official languages of J&K. "When all five languages are official, why is Urdu alone being imposed as a mandatory qualification for specific posts?" he questioned. Referring to the 2019 NT recruitment, Kavinder highlighted that 126 candidates were rejected for not qualifying in Urdu, and 122 of them belonged to the Jammu region. "This is a shocking statistic which clearly indicates that the Urdu clause has been misused as a tool to deliberately exclude the educated youth of Jammu from government job opportunities," he said.
The former Deputy Chief Minister demanded that the present J&K Government and JKSSB immediately review the recruitment criteria for Naib Tehsildar posts and ensure a level playing field for all candidates, irrespective of their regional and linguistic backgrounds.
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