news details |
|
|
| What is Central University reality? | | Anger growing in Jammu, Congress joins chorus with BJP | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 19: With Vice Chancellor of the proposed prestigious Central University maintaining enigmatic silence despite large scale outcry and Jammu region fusing together for the cause, the ruling coalition partner Congress and its arch rival in Jammu region, the BJP, are in one voice to oppose the shifting of varsity to Kashmir.
Based on the recommendations of Knowledge Commission, the UPA Government, in its previous tenure, had sanctioned once Central University and one Indian Institute of Management for Jammu and Kashmir. Initially the University of Kashmir, University of Jammu, SMVD University and BGSB University vied for their upgradation to the Central University status. However, the Union Government later decided that an all new Campus of Central University shall come up at Jammu and the IIM will go to Kashmir.
Despite a clear decision by the Center, the Vice Chancellor of proposed Central University Prof Abdul Wahid Qureshi (former Vice Chancellor of the University of Kashmir) set up its establishment campus at Srinagar giving signals that the institution will come up in Kashmir. The Vice Chancellor Qureshi maintains that “the location of the Headquarters of our recently setup University is yet to be identified and notified….pending that decision, the University is in the process of preparing relevant statutes, regulations and ordinances for consideration by its competent authorities as and when they meet in the near future”.
Even though the VC is not making it clear, but the issue has already stirred huge resentment in Jammu region where several dozen organizations have together for establishment of the University at Samba, the place earlier proposed. While opposition BJP has already taken up this issue, the Congress too has reluctantly joined the fray to agitate for establishment of the Central University in Jammu.
The state unit of the Congress is reported to have mounted pressure on the union Government to set up two campuses of the central univerity, one in Jammu and the other in Srinagar, as part of the Government's programme of ending regional discrimination.
Congress party sources today said that senior party leaders raised the issue of setting up the central university in Kashmir when the valley had also bagged one IIM which the central Government planned to set up in different states with the party president, Saif-ud-Din Soz. Soz first discussed the matter with Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, who announced the other day that two campuses would be set up, one in Jammu and the other in Srinagar.
According to these party sources, PCC President Saif-ud-Din Soz will meet the Union Minister for human resources and education besides the Prime Minister requesting them to set up one campus of the central university in Jammu and the other in Srinagar. Soz is said to have persuaded Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, to recommend the case for setting up one campus of the central university in Jammu also.
Meanwhile. tThe state unit of the BJP has already started measuring swords to target the Omar Abdullah lead coalition government over the issue of setting up of two separate campuses/branches of the Central University in Jammu and Srinagar.
State BJP State president Ashok Khajuria on sunday while rejecting the statement of the chief minister said that the party will oppose such a move tooth and nail.
He reminded the Chief Minister that the Central University has been sanctioned for Jammu and the same should be established in Samba district, where the land for this purpose has already been identified.
Ashok Khajuria said the BJP is not against any region of the state but will not tolerate any discrimination with the Jammu at any level or in any sphere. We did not raise any objection over the decision of setting up an IIM in the valley then why hue and cry is made over establishment of Central university in Jammu province.
The BJP chief said that there is resentment among the student community, general public and other organizations over the reported move to shift or open branch in the valley. The government should not become a party against the original decision of establishment of the Central university in Jammu. He told the state Chief Minister that the people of Jammu province know very well how to protect and safeguard their rights. The CM should not forget the 2008 land row agitation which brought all the Jammuites together and the world witnessed 62-day long historical agitation. If the government do not accede to the demand of establishment of the Central University in Jammu, the people will be forced to come on roads and the situation may be like that of 2008 and then the BJP will be with the people of Jammu province, declared Ashok Khajuria.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
