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| Sons of lesser Gods, Gujjars pushed to walls | | Survey says, tribe has been denied space in all spheres | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu| Sept 16
Being straight and honest with the words, the Muslims have always been accused of pocketing the majority of jobs and all public positions in Jammu and Kashmir. It is true, they have romped home the major chunk but not all of them. Gujjars who are all Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir and constitute the third largest chunk of population have almost no representation in the various levels of administration.
A survey conducted by the Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation reveals that Gujjars comprise nearly 20 to 25 % population in the State and the Government has provided 10% reservation to them under Scheduled Tribe category, but it is surprising that their presence in seven major government departments and Institutions including Civil Secretariat, Civil Administration, Police , Judiciary, J&K Bank, Jammu/ Kashmir Universities and State Gujjar Advisory Board is almost negligible.
"I call it Social injustice, the Gujjar Tribe in the State is at the bottom of the heap when it comes to benefits from various level" Said Dr. Javaid Rahi
The Survey was conducted on 60 year of Indian Independence by the Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation, a National Organisation working on tribes, under its Scheme "Focus on Gujjars".
According to the survey report, civil secretariat where plans are formulated and executed for whole of the state have 101 Under Secretaries and Private Secretaries and only one Under Secretary belongs to Gujjar Tribe while no Gujjar has been working as Deputy Secretary, Additional Secretary, Special Secretary , Commissioner Secretary or above.
KAS poll, there are 319 senior officers working in civil administration and only 5 (Five) belongs to Gujjar tribe while as per the constitutional provisions, there should be 32 officers working in such poll and as per the population, this number ought to have been 64. there are 41 Super Scale, 39 above Super Scale and 163 HODs/IAS officers/ others in the civil administration of the state and nobody belongs to Gujjar tribe.
In state police department the situation is more worst as 30 SSPs, discharging their duties in the State only one belongs to Gujjar tribe, he too is posted as Staff Officer, in state Home Guard, while among 2l DIGs and 13 IGs, there is no representation of Gujjars in this major law enforcing agency of the state , the Survey revealed .
Survey Says , the important organ of the state which provide justice to people, i.e state judiciary there are 55 District and Session Judges, while only one is from Gujjar community while as per the reservation quota, this number should have been 6 and as per population ratio, it should have been 12. Since 1928, no Gujjar has been appointed as Judge of the state High Court and even today among the l4 sanctioned vacancies of the Judges of High Court , no Gujjar has been appointed or elevated till date as such.
Survey further reveals , there are 303 teachers in Jammu university which include Lecturers, Readers and Professors. As per the schedule tribe reservation quota, the number of Gujjars should have been 30 and as per population ratio, 60. But there are only one lecturer in University of Jammu belonging to Gujjar Tribe. The situation is worst in Kashmir University, there are 364 Lecturers, Readers and Professors working in this highest educational institution of Kashmir and as per constitutional provisions, 36 ought to have been from Gujjar Tribe while there is not a single teacher appointed or working in University of Kashmir.
The survey also focused, the most prestigious financial institution, which is back bone of our economy, i.e., J&K Bank, there are 3352 officer ranking staff members from Probationary Officers/Managers to the Chairman of the Bank. As per the reservation provisions of ST, 331 staff members ought to have from Gujjar community and it is most ironic that there are only 3 (Three) employees working in J&K Bank which belong to Gujjar Tribe.
During the survey a most surprising revelation was that the only Government department working for Gujjar Affairs in Civil Secretariat, i.e., State Advisory Board for the Development of Gujjars and Bakerwals have 15 staff members from Vice Chairman to orderly and there are only 2 (Two) orderlies from Gujjar community are working in this board.
Dr. Javaid Rahi said government should initiate steps and announce various packages to bring Gujjar tribe in the main stream. He said that this community has always been exploited as a vote bank and even the political parties with the votes of Gujjars assume power.
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