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| Re-establishment of Ayurvedic College in Jammu good development | | Snatching UIET from JU | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 21: Perhaps, the only achievement of the BJP, especially Minister of Medical Education Bali Bhagat, was the hastening of the process leading to the reestablishment of Ayurvedic College in Jammu's Akhnoor. Credit goes both to Congress Minister Sham Lal Sharma and Bali Bhagat for the reestablishment of the Ayurvedic College. To Sham Lal because he took the first initiative and to Bali Bhagat, because he managed to surmount all the difficulties and got funds released for the construction of the Ayurvedic College. "The admission process," according to sources in the Health Ministry, "would start in just a few months and the first batch would be admitted in 3-4 months time".
It would be a historic day, when the College started functioning and youth of Jammu got admitted.
The reestablishment of Ayurvedic College would be a befitting reward to those in Jammu who fought valiantly in the 1970s and faced Sheikh Abdullah police's oppression and barbarities. The student community and people of Jammu had fought for months against the Sheikh Abdullah's anti-Jammu move to close down the functional Ayurvedic College, but with no result. The Congress Government at the Centre sided with anti-Jammu Sheikh Abdullah and ditched the people of Jammu and the agitation died down with some "vested interests" playing the anti-Jammu role for personal benefits.
This is one part of the story and it is inspiring. The other part of the story is depressing and disappointing. The case in point is the highly controversial move to snatch from the Jammu University its almost two-year-old University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), based within the Jammu University's Kathua campus.
The argument of the anti-Jammu elements in the Higher Education department that the UIET belonged to the state government "from day one" is as spurious as it is untenable and politically motivated. The institution was built at the Jammu University's Kathua campus. How could the state government build its own institution on the land belongede to the Jammu University and which was located within the premises of the Jammu University's Kathua Campus.
Again, the argument of the Higher Education Department that the Government adopted the same approach towards the similar institution in Kashmir is as untenable and flawed. The Higher Education Department should know that the institution it talked about has not been established within the premises of the Kashmir University.
The fact of the matter is that the state government is playing with fire. It would be only desirable if it respects the sentiments of the people of Jammu as well as those 64 students who have been admitted to the UIET and abandon the move otherwise it could face the 2015-like situation: Agitation for AIIMS in Jammu and six-day-long Jammu bandh. |
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