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| Forestry undergraduates become pawns of NC-Congress political check-mate | | | Bivek Mathur
JAMMU, Apr 12: At a time when partners in state's ruling coalition are extending their camaraderie across the national political spectrum, the forestry undergraduates of the state are ruing the apathy of both parties both as independent political entities and as a coalition.
Jammu and Kashmir Forestry Graduates feel used and disposed by two political parties like the gambling coins for their vested interests while one party was in opposition and other was ruling the state in 2007.
Way back in 2007, while the current Law Minister Mir Saifullah was in opposition and Ghulam Nabi Azad was Chief Minister of the state, Saifullah highlighted the issue of rising number of unemployed B.Sc forestry graduates in the Assembly to which then Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad promised that a strategy will be charted out to adjust them soon.
Following this, a representation of J&K unemployed Forestry Graduates Association led by its office bearers had called on Ghulam Nabi Azad in his office and a committee was constituted thereafter vide Government order number 207-FST of 2007 dated 18-04-2007 to examine and work out a viable scheme on the pattern of Rehbar-i-Talim and Rehbar-e-Sehat for considering the engagement of unemployed youth so that their academic qualification, training and skills could be better utilized for management and protection of forest.
The said committee has submitted in its report which contains a proposal for engagement of certain number of forestry graduates and DDR trained youth as Rehbar-i-Janglat to act as facilitators and community mobilizers for national afforestation programme on the basis of a stipend for a limited period.
The committee has further proposed that Rehbar-i-Janglat would not be considered as Government employees and would not claim for absorption in the Government services. The committee also suggested that the proposal would have an annual financial implication of about Rs 6 Crores.
Following this, several protests were lodged against the National Conference-Congress Government over their failure to implement the suggestions of the committee both in Jammu as well as Kashmir province but the matter till date is hanging fire due to reasons best known to both the coalition partners. |
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