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| Authorities set to rename SKIMS, SKICC, SKUAST, SKEPWY and many more in JK | | ‘Sher-e-Kashmir’ not a Govt title | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 30: The government action of dropping ‘Sher-e-Kashmir’ title from police medals has hinted that the authorities are set to rename almost all government institutions prefixed with the NC founder’s name in Jammu and Kashmir.
The government on January 25 issued an official notification in which it was announced that the Sher-e- Kashmir police medals awarded to police personnel for exemplary services shall be from now on called as Jammu and Kashmir Police Medals. Such an action was taken almost a month after the government removed December 5- birthday of NC founder- as the gazetted holiday in the erstwhile state. Now with removal of Sher-e Kashmir title from the police medals, the government seems to have been making its intentions clear that it may go ahead with its proposal to rename the government institutions which are prefixed with Sher-e-Kashmir title. The intuitions which may be rechristened are Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences (SKUAST), Sher-e-Kashmir stadium, Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Complex (SKICC) and number of universities, bridges, conference halls, police training institutes and several other public buildings and schemes that bear the title "Sher-e-Kashmir". There is a also a vital employment generation program of the government namely Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme or SKEPWY which may also be rechristened.
“The process may be initiated anytime soon and the proposal in this regard will come under serious consideration of the government,” says a senior government official and refused to divulge any further details.
Meanwhile, official sources told Early Times that the Government has no official record wherein the founder of the political party- national conference- Late Sheikh Mohd Abdullah has been officially given title of "Sher-e-Kashmir". “There is no record available in any government file which can confirm that the government has ever conferred the title of Sher-e-Kashmir to Sheikh Sahib. If there are government institutions or schemes that bear the name Sher-e-Kashmir, it means same has been done by the political parties who were in power and want the name Sher-e-Kashmir used. At official level no such title ever existed and if there is nothing like Sher-e-Kashmir existent, how could it be removed?,” says an official privy to the development.
The RTI application filed back in the year 2015 had asked the government whether the title Sher-e-Kashmir given to Sheikh Abdullah has been endorsed by the government. The PIO of GAD vide letter no. GAD/RTI (Adm.)/1553/2015 informed the RTI applicant that the Government has no such information available with it regarding the conferment of title of 'Sher-e-Kashmir' on Sheikh Mohd Abdullah.
Last month, the administration dropped Abdullah's birth anniversary from the list of official holiday of 2020, drawing a strong reaction from the NC, the Congress and other parties.
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