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| Irony! Instead of bureaucrats, senior BJP leader approaches media | | Reminds helmsmen about harassment faced by SC/STs on pretext of verification | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 4: Senior BJP leader and spokesman of the party Balbir Singh Rattan instead of approaching the bureaucrats has turned to media so that his voice is heard.
On Friday Rattan while talking to reporters at the party headquarter here said that the authorities should adhere to the recent decision of the Supreme Court of India, delivered by its Double Bench, that the category certificates of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) should not be verified again and again.
“The Apex Court has, indeed given a relief to a large population of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes across the country, who had been feeling harassed on applying for benefit of the reserved category in the form of government job or availing any social scheme.”
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, “Balbir Singh Rattan is a senior BJP leader, he could have easily approached the officials and apprised them about his concern. But he preferred to remind the bureaucrats through media.”
He said, “Rattan has given his entire life to BJP and has remained steadfast on his resolve to uphold the party’s flag amid very difficult situation, but it seems that he too is not being heard by the bureaucrats who are running the system in Jammu and Kashmir.”
In an apparent reference to the harassment being faced by the members of SC/ST community Balbir said, “The Government has every right to verify the documents of a person, be it academic, technical, professional or category, but it would not be justified if someone is asked to go though the verification of his or her claim to be member of a reserved category time and again. He said that like other documents, the concerned department, should carry the verification of the reserved category certificate at the initial stage if someone is given employment or any other benefit and should not be harassed repeatedly.”
He said, “The extent of agony through which these people pass can be well judged by looking at the problems being faced by the members of SC community in particular, residing in the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir, who had to procure different certificates for jobs in departments under Central Government and the State and also they were required to apply for fresh certificates after every 12-15 years under new SRO and they can explain well what the agony they passed through during their life as a member of a particular community.” |
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