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| Discrimination against Jammu well documented: JSM | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu, Jan 12- Strongly rejecting the proposal of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for constituting a commission to identify the points of discrimination between various regions of the state, the Executive body meeting of Jammu State Morcha (P) held under the chairmanship of its president Prof Virender Gupta President, described the move as an attempt to hoodwink the people of Jammu region.
The discrimination and disparity against Jammu region is well documented in the official records of the state Planning and Statistical Department and must be balanced immediately before any such commissions are appointed, he added.
In order to show its willingness to give due share to Jammu region, the government must immediately conduct delimitation of assemblies to enhance the representation of Jammu province in the State Assembly to 52 seats vis-a- vis 46 of the Valley as per the criteria laid down in the Representation of the Peoples Act; make 50% representation of Jammu region in the Civil Secretariat and other Government departments including J&K Bank, other Corporations and semi Government departments, besides implantation of Singhal Committee report in the matter of admissions to the Medical, Engineering and other professional colleges, equitable allocation of development funds to Jammu and Kashmir divisions instead of what has been carried on till date, up gradation Jammu Medical College as an Autonomous Post Graduate Institute and Jammu College of Engineering to an Autonomous Institute of the level of NIT and creating a separate Tribal Affairs Ministry in the state to exclusively look after the well being of various Schedule Tribes in the state, the JSM Morcha demanded.
Abdul Rouf Ganai, Senior Vice President; H.B. Khajuria , Vice President, Capt Anil Gour Spokesperson, Swaran Sharma , President Women’s Wing, Digvijay Singh, Secretary General, Divender Singh Jamwal and Virender Mohan Sharma, General Secretaries; Balwinder Jamwal, Secretary, Chandra Uday Sharma, Press and Publicity Secretary, Surinder Sharma, Youth President and M. M. Munshi Member also attended the meeting..
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