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| Harshdev contests Prof Om’s claims on rare manuscripts | | |
Jammu June 20-Ridiculing the statement of Prof Hari Om, BJP spokesman, wherein the latter has questioned the role of Panthers Party in the delay in transfer of rate manuscripts to Jammu, the Harshdev Singh, former Minister and NPP MLA said ‘that it was astonishing that Prof Hari Om, who was himself associated with the process, had chosen to make an ‘irresponsible and misleading’ statement with ulterior motives’.
Contesting Hari Om’s claims, the NPP leader said that the recommendations of the Committee headed by Prof Hari Om were accepted by him as the then Education Minister adding that since neither resources nor expertise for digitization, microfilming of rare manuscripts existed in the state, the matter was taken up with the Central Government. He said the Centre had agreed to assist in the process of digitization and accordingly ‘National Mission for Manuscripts’ was assigned the said responsibility by Union Ministry of Culture adding that it would not have been possible without his personal initiative.
Referring to the recommendations of the Hari Om Committee, Harshdev said that the committee recommended that manuscripts needed to be kept at both the places at Kashmir as well as Jammu after their microfilming so that students in both the regions could benefit from the same.
Regretting that Prof Om, a learned person and an educationist and well versed with the facts has made a misleading statement only with malafide intentions with sole objective of scoring points.
Asserting that NPP has always stood for the cause of Jammuites and worked for the promotion and safeguarding the rights and interests of people of Jammu, Harshdev said that the ‘uncalled for criticism by vested interests only indicated their frustration in view of rising popularity of the Party and its ever growing graph of public support.
‘If Hari Om was so much concerned about the said manuscripts, he should have straight way recommended in his report the actual transfer of the said manuscripts to Jammu rather than recommending microfilming of the same and keeping its sets both in Kashmir and Jammu’, Harshdev maintained. However, he has asked the government to report the progress achieved with regard and digitization and further placement of the said manuscripts in Jammu libraries and also supported the demand of Jammu students for fossil retention at Jammu.
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