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| After Ranji Bala’s gruesome killing fear grips 2500 Jammu Dalit employees working in Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 31: As terrorists killed a female Scheduled Caste teacher recruited under an inter-district recruitment drive, fear gripped over 2500 Dalit families of Jammu because their dear ones have been serving in different government departments in the interiors of Kashmir Valley.
First time a Scheduled Caste employee serving in Kashmir Valley has been targeted by terrorists. Rajni Bala along with her husband Raj Kumar Atri was serving as teacher in remotest area of Kulgam for the last 13 years.
There was no threat to family, and they were living a rented accommodation of locals. But first killing of an employee recruited under inter-district recruitment has raised many questions.
“Although selective killings were going on after repeated intervals, but we were not worried. Today’s incident has shaken our faith,”, Ramesh Kumar, whose brother is serving in South Kashmir said. He added that today’s killing has refreshed the early 1990s situation in the Valley when selective killing was a routine affair.
Besides nearly 1500 Jammu-based state cadre employees who have been transferred to Kashmir Valley, there are over 2500 Dalit employees who were directly appointed under the inter-district recruitment policy of the J&K government, are serving in all the ten districts of the Valley in different departments.
These employees are recruited on district cadre posts so it is difficult for them to get posting in Jammu province.
As there is no Dalit population in Kashmir Valley, qualified Scheduled Castes (SCs) youth from Jammu province have opted for district cadre posts reserved for SCs in the Valley.
“Our family members have reasons to be worried because first time after the eruption of terrorism in Kashmir Valley, selective killings of non-locals have started with such an intensity,” an employee serving in Valley said on the condition of anonymity. |
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