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| Omar's boastful remarks about 'stipend job' further enrage youths | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Nov 10: Even as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tried to validate the newly introduced recruitment policy by citing his personal example of getting Rs 3,000 stipend during his first professional assignment, however, the justification instead of calming down the fuming students has further enraged them.
In an attempt to pacify the protesting youth of the state particularly of Jammu region who are on 'warpath' against the fresh recruitment policy, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah while addressing media persons on the opening day of annual Darbar Move offices here said, "What's wrong to start with stipend. I started on a stipend of Rs 3,000 per month in my initial days for one year, which was later enhanced to Rs 6,000."
The Chief Minister, however, said that if the private sector invites youth to join jobs on stipend basis then why cannot the government sector take similar initiative?
The students said that several VVIPs in the past have opted not to take honorariums but this gesture did not affect their life at all.
It is worthwhile to mention here that the then Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development Abdul Majid Wani had announced to donate his salary for the welfare of orphans in his Doda constituency on January 30, 2003.
Earlier, Finance and Planning Minister Muzaffar Hussain Beigh and MoS Education Minister Sayeed Bashir Ahmed announced that they would donate their salaries to the poor and orphans in their constituencies.
Some political and students' leaders taking strong exception to the remarks of Omar, said men like him are born with silver spoon and they should not compare their lives with that of a commoner..
The politicians can manage even if they don't get Rs 3000 stipend as they are possessing huge wealth but a common man having social responsibilities on his shoulders can't live a respectable life in such a meagre amount in this present times of sky rocketing prices.
Senior vice president Youth wing Jammu Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) and incharge National Panthers Students Union (NPSU) Pushpinder Jamwal echoed the same tunes. He said," Persons like Omar Abdullah are born with a silver spoon in their mouths… They can even work without pay why to talk of the stipend but can a common man go for this option, perhaps never."
Similarly, Chairman Youth of Jammu Kashmir & Ladakh…. a movement (YJKL) Suresh Ajay Magotra refuting the Chief Minister's stipend remarks said that Omar need not show off what he drew as salary during his initial days as several ministers of the state in the past have set a precedence by surrendering their salaries for charity but they can afford to do so, being VVIPs.
Magotra said just imagine after working for a month you are going almost empty handed to your home where the family is expecting to pay various household bills including the school fee of the wards, he said.
He said stir against new recruitment policy would not be affected by such 'statements' instead it will further encourage the youth of state for their resolve to fight injustice.
Meanwhile, Chairman, Jammu Kashmir National Panthers Party Prof Bhim Singh,
has served a notice on the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah warning him to withdraw this 'draconian', 'anti-people' SRO reducing the salary of newly drafted non-gazetted employees to a half within one month from this day or face contempt of the High Court as well as a PIL seeking dismissal of such a 'draconian law' aiming to suck the blood of the new generation.
Bhim Singh said a similar SRO was issued in 1981 by the government of Sheikh Abdullah reducing the salaries of the newly drafted non-gazetted as well gazetted employees to a half for first two years. They had to pass a special test and obtain letter of satisfactory conduct from their seniors before claiming full salary after two years, however, the then Chief Justice of J&K High Court, Bahuddin Farooqi's bench quashed that SRO. |
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