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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, NOV 27: If reports doing rounds in the civil secretariat here are any guide, Kashmiri Pandit employees have to be prepared for posting in the Valley. Both the Centre and the State Governments are said to have decided to transfer all Kashmiri Pandit employees to the Valley as part of the plan for facilitating return of the migrants to Kashmir.
Official sources today said that the decision ould be implemented strictly from March 210 onwards. In fact, a beginning has already been made and in the recent reshuffle of senior and junior Government officials a large number of employees, especially engineers have been posted in different parts of the Valley.
What seems to have encouraged the State Government to enforce the decision to shift Pandit employees, working in various parts of the Jammu region to different areas in the Kashmir Valley, is the Centre’s instructions that those departments that send more migrant employees to the Valley would receive Central funds for undertaking new development projects.
One senior official of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department said that the centre has assured the top functionaries of the Department, including the Minister, that in case all the Pandit employees, especially the engineers, were transferred to Kashmir the Department would be fully assisted in executing new development plans.
In addition to this the Government has decided to employ 3,000 migrant youths in various Government departments in Kashmir only. The Centre has agreed to meet the wage bill of these 3,000 employees. The State Government is to create 3,000 additional posts so that another batch of 3,000 Kashmiri migrant youths could be employed. This is part of the Prime Minister’s employment package. The State’s Government is yet to earmark 3,000 posts for which the State has to bear the expenses. Official sources said that proper ordinance was to be issued because under the State constitution there was no provision for reservation on the basis of community.
Meanwhile, l eaders of several Kashmiri Pandit organisations have termed the Government plan on transfers and recruitments as "forcible return." Chairman Panun Kashmir, Dr Ajay Chrungoo said that the one important feature of the PM's employment package was that the State Government would get full powers to force migrant employees to return to Kashmir. He said what was intriguing that even those who were born and brought up in Jammu too were being shifted to Kashmir. He wanted the Centre and the State Governments to delink employment from the return policy.
Another advocate of migrant Pandit’s cause, H.L.Chatha said that decision to provide jobs to unemployed Kashmir migrant youths was; laudable but the way the employment was linked with return was unfortunate. Like Dr Chrungoo he too wanted the Government to reconsider and review the return, recruitment and transfer policy so that those employees who were sent to Kashmir had not to face another exodus. The Pandit leaders wanted the Government to discuss the return issue with prominent political leaders and those in the separatist camps. More important was the need for a debate between the Pandit leaders and those who matter in Kashmir
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