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| Time for celebrations, without hair splitting | | One more victory for united Jammu | | Yash Bhasin | 8/6/2011 10:11:52 PM |
| Hats off to the people of Jammu. They have once again displayed
exemplary unity of purpose, over an act of injustice against them. For
last over one month the student community and groups of research
scholars in Jammu have been holding protest demonstrations, striking
their classes in the collages and university, to press the demand for
making the sanctioned Central University Jammu functional, with the
appointment of a competent person, preferably a local one, as its Vice
Chancellor, to spare loss of one more academic session. The credit for
acting as catalyst for the youth, particularly the students and
research scholars goes to the student wing of the Panthers Party,
NPSU, whose sponsored strike in the university and collages has now
entered 38th day and relay hunger strike 13th day. The other student
groups are also obliged to jump in the agitation and hold protest
against inordinate delay in the matter. Eventually all the student
organisations in Jammu have come round to joining the agitation and
lodging protests, though on separate platforms, but for the common
cause.
The lead taken by the student community in the present phase of
agitation has also brought a new life to the movement launched by
civil society groups, whose movements for the cause, for over a year
now was going on at a low key, with holding of sporadic protests, with
long gaps. Jammu Province People’s Forum, an amalgam of various
social, cultural, professional and trade organisation of Jammu
launched hunger strike has also entered 13th day. Eventually, Jammu
Bar Association, BJP, Panthers Party, Jammu Units of BSP, LJP, NCP and
Panun Kashmir any many others groups have jumped into the fray.
Ironically, the BJP and RSS sponsored student organizations, ABVP,
which in the past were ahead of all others in fighting against in any
justices with Jammu region are the latest entrants in the agitation.
The collective struggle of Jammu people has once again proved
fruitful, forcing the authorities in the Centre to concede their
demand. The State govt. and the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who were
earlier taking the mild protest by Jammu based organizations over the
issue lightly and were adopting a callous attitude, were forced to
move in the matter, sensing the brewing unrest may erupt volcanic. The
Chief Minister telephonically urged the Union HRD Minister, Kapil
Sibal, to take early action in appointing a Vice Chancellor for CU
Jammu. This made the latter to recommend the President the name of a
Jammuite, a domicile Dogra and former J &K Chief Secretary, SS
Bolaria, for her clearance for appointment as the first Vice
Chancellor of the Central University Jammu.
This is definitely the victory of Jammu people who have once again
shown that they will no more bear any regional discrimination and
injustice with them. Most of the agitating groups over the issue, have
welcomed the proposed appointment. Some others, who have so far not
publically reacted to the development, are also reported to be
reconciled to the same. They are waiting the formal appointment and
announcement of the same, to publically welcome it.
However, there is some scepticism among the agitators about the
sincerity of the authorities in the matter. It is in the light of fact
that assurances given and promises made by the authorities, in the
past, to act positively in the matter soon, have not been implemented.
Once bitten- twice wise- they don’t want to take any chance now by
calling off the agitation, until the order in this regard is issue,
after the seal of approval to the same applied by the president of
India.
But why the authorities are moving in the matter even now at a snail’s
pace, allowing students to suffer in their studies, with continuous
strike in the colleges and university and unrest going on unabated
among the concerned groups? Now, without any further delay the
authorities should make official announcement in this regard, to
remove any uncertainty and suspense over the matter, to stem the
unrest, paving way for the agitating groups to call off the stir.
In the meanwhile a student organization, NSF has opposed the
appointment of a retired senior bureaucrat from Jammu as VC, stating
that only an academician, belonging to the region will be expectable
to them. This group of students, may be unwittingly, is playing in the
hands of anti Jammu element, providing an alibi to them to further
complicate the matter and delay in making the university functional
and even sabotage it. Already two academic sessions have been lost,
with the authorities taking the excuse of the choice of Vice
Chancellor being politicized and undue hassles created.
It is time that the Jammu people with sagacity and wisdom come forward
and rubbish any move to sabotage the prospect of CU Jammu becoming
functional without losing an other academic session. Exercising
discretion as the best part of valour, all the agitating groups in
Jammu should get reconciled to a senior retired IAS officer, the
former Chief Secretary to J&K government, with proven integrity and
having required merits and fulfilling the criteria, to fill the slot.
SS Baloria is a non controversial person with long record of service
in various capacities and having excelled in various fields. As head
of the delimitation Committee for administrative reorganization of
districts and thesils in the states, he has acted quite creditably, to
the satisfaction of almost al sections of the people. As head of the
panel appointed by the governor NN Vohra, to negotiate with the
leaders of the agitation over Amarnath Yatra land row in Jammu, in
2008, Boloria clinched the deal quite favourable and expectable to the
people of Jammu. It is another thing if the govt. latter did not
implement all the clauses of the agreement, over which he has now
hardly any say, with the panel wound up after completing its task.
Scholarly traits and academic acumen are not the monopoly of the
teacher in the university. Among the bureaucrats there are many who
have extensive research work, on different subject, to their credit.
Some of them have even attained doctorate. SS Bolaria is one among
them. Precedents are not lacking where bureaucrats, even serving ones
of proven integrity and scholarly background are appointed Vice
Chancellors of the universities. Mahmood-Ur- Rehman a J&K cadre IAS
officer of a rank junior to CS has served as full term VC of Aligarh
Muslim University. Even a politician like Chenna Reddy, who later also
served as Governor of a state, had a long tenure as VC Jadupur
University, in West Bengal. Madan Mohan Malvia, the founder of Banaras
Hindu University also served as its first Vice Chancellor.
Jammu people have yet to fight many battles against discriminations
against them injustices meted out to them. They should preserve their
energy for the decisive battle to get share in the political power and
decision making, without flittering away their energies over trifles
and in hair splitting.
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