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| Urdu For Naib Tehsildar Recruitment Test | | Language Controversy | | Omkar Dattatray | 6/30/2025 10:57:34 PM |
| All languages are good, fine and rich and they lend richness to our literature and to our lives. But alas! languages are being used to divide the people and communities. Languages should unite and not divide us. Urdu is also a rich and sweet language and it has produced many poets and writers of repute. Urdu language controversy is not new but it was also found in the old decades in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the recruitment test for the post of a Naib Tehsildar.
There is no doubt that Urdu is official language in Jammu and Kashmir and it continues to be official.
From, time to time we are witness to the fact that Urdu language has been made compulsory for the post of Naib Tehsildar and for qualifying the test an aspirant should also pass the Urdu language test. Other languages and national language Hindi should not be relegated to background and back seat. To make passing of Urdu test compulsory for a Naib Tehsildar post is total discriminatory and naturally it has generated much resentment not only among the Naib Tehsildar aspirants but among the political parties of Jammu and the common citizens. This avoidable controversy should be bidding a good bye at the earliest otherwise it can ignite protests and demonstrations in whole Jammu region and can ignite flames in this region which will be difficult to control and extinguish. Omar Abdullah should show his acumen and foresight and thus should order the cancellation of the compulsorily Urdu language test for the recruitment of a Naib Tehsildar post and doing so he can endear his party NC and government to the people of Jammu and it will also give the impression to Jammuites that NC-Congress coalition government cares for them. Making Urdu test mandatory for a Naib Tehsildar is unjust and discriminatory and as such a requirement of passing Urdu amounts to an assault on the rights of the educated youth of Jammu Province and Omar Abdullah should prove his credibility and non-partisan attitude of his administration by cancelling the compulsory clause of passing Urdu language test.
Yes, for Naib Tehsildar post working knowledge is necessary and no sane person will deny this fact.
Then the government can give knowledge of Urdu to the Naib Tehsildar trainees by giving them capacity building courses in Urdu so that they can be made conversant with Urdu language before assuming the charge of the Naib Tehsildar post and doing so will ensure justice to those aspirants of NT post who do not have the knowledge of Urdu The clamour of the people of Jammu especially of the young aspirants for the Naib Tehsildar post is genuine as the rights of the educated youth of Jammu are under assault by this partisan and biased decision made by the CM.LG Manoj Shina should intervene and order that Urdu should no longer be made compulsory for passing the recruitment test for the post of a Naib Tehsildar.NC government should not make the issue of Urdu a matter of ego and agree to the cancellation of this discriminatory ,biased and unjust order.
The NC -Congress coalition governments decision to make Urdu language test compulsory for Naib Tehsildar amounts to murder of the rights of the educated youth of Jammu region and therefore the LG should step in and cancel the discriminatory decision so that justice is given to Jammu region. Such a decision of LG will give a sigh of relief to Naib Tehsildar Jammu aspirants.
All eyes are now on the Honourable LG Manoj Shina and he will break the logjam and the controversy of Urdu language will come to an end. Languages should connect and not disconnect and disunite the people, regions and communities.
The decision of the NC government will give rise to language chauvinism and this order is furthering the language controversy. Thus, such an order and decision will divide regions and communities and therefore it is in the fitness of things that the LG should cancel the decision of the NC government regarding compulsory test of Urdu language for the NT post. Closing the doors of the appointment for Naib Tehsildar post for the youth of Jammu region are grossly unjust and very discriminatory and the LG should cancel such partisan and biased decision of the NC-Congress government and address the genuine issues, aspirations and demand of the Jammuites and balm the hurt psyche of the educated youth of Jammu. In fact, Urdu is the latest flashpoint between political parties in Jammu and Kashmir. A day after J&K BJP top brass sought LG Manoj Sinha’s intervention for scrapping the mandatory Urdu test for recruitment to Naib Tehsildar post, opposition PDP pushed back and asked Omar Abdullah government not to bow to pressure, even as governing NC has kept mum. Urdu has been the official language of J&k for centuries and no one can deny this stark truth.
But then Urdu language should not become a tool for dividing the regions and communities but instead the languages should connect and unite people. The fact that 90% of the minorities from Jammu region know only Hindi and English and all these educated youth from Jammu division cannot be denied the opportunities of employment only on the basis that they do not know Urdu and there should be no politics over the Urdu language test for Naib Tehsildar post and there should be no Jammu versus Kashmir but instead the decisions of the NC government should bridge the differences and gap between Jammu and Kashmir regions and Omar Abdullah should himself rescind the draconian ,unjust and most discriminatory decision of Urdu compulsory for the recruitment for Naib Tehsildar post. A Naib Tehsildar need not be a professor and teacher of Urdu and it is true that an aspirant for the post of Naib Tehsildar need not have a graduate or post graduate degree in Urdu language but an aspirant for NT post should have working and basic knowledge of Urdu and this can be done by acquainting those who qualify for the post of NT by giving the trainee NT’s the basic knowledge of Urdu through induction courses in Urdu language .In this manner two birds can be killed with one stone. To sum up one can say that before it will be too late the government should rescind the draconian, discriminatory and biased decision so that there is no unrest in Jammu region and prove his commitment that his government treats both regions of Kashmir and Jammu equally. And start can be made by cancellation of the discriminatory decision of Urdu being compulsory for the recruitment for the NT post.
The author is a columnist,social,KP activist &Freelancer |
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