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| Kashmir grabbed 1300 out of 1600 advertised posts in JK Bank | | Gross Discrimination With Jammu | | Neha
Jammu, Mar 31: Jammu and Kashmir Bank Limited was incorporated on 1st October 1938 and commenced its business from 4 July 1939. The bank was the first in the country as a state-owned bank. Till 1947, the authorities at the helm didn't discriminate between the candidates belonging to Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. Those found suitable were appointed and the bank functioned to the satisfaction of all. The situation changed after the state acceded to India because New Delhi (read Congress) manipulated things and transferred political power from Jammu to Kashmir using questionable methods. It was with the transfer of political power to Kashmir that the story of neglect and marginalization of the people of Jammu Pradesh commenced and the discrimination continues unabated till date.
The extent of the discrimination with the people of Jammu Pradesh could be seen from the fact that the office of the chief minister has become the sole preserve of Kashmir. Those who say that the people of Jammu Pradesh got in the person of Ghulam Nabi Azad a non-Kashmiri chief minister are wrong. Azad is ethnically Kashmiri. His forefathers migrated from Kashmir to Jammu decades ago. The extent of discrimination with Jammu Pradesh can also be gauged from the fact that the presidents of the political parties which matter in the state and New Delhi are all from Kashmir. It can also be seen from the composition and complexion of the Civil Secretariat. It is practically all-Kashmir secretariat.
It's no wonder that it is the people of Kashmir (read followers of a particular religion and members of a particular religious sect) who have been dominating every institution in the state and systematically excluding the people of Jammu Pradesh from all the institutions, political, economic and social. As a result, the people of this Pradesh are virtually conspicuous by their absence in all the vital institutions. The story of representation of the Jammu youth in the Jammu and Kashmir Bank is no different. The reason why the Jammu youth do not get their due share in this state-owned bank is that its chairman has been mostly from Kashmir after 1947. The present chairman is from Kashmir. His predecessor was from Kashmir and his predecessor's predecessor was from Kashmir and the story goes on like this. So it is not something extraordinary that the Kashmiri-controlled Jammu and Kashmir Bank, which also has its headquarters at Srinagar, prefers candidates for various posts from Kashmir with the rigorously excluded Jammu youth having no other option but to chaff. They are simply seething with anger. What else can they do?
The latest example of glaring discrimination with the Jammu youth is the selection of 1300 Kashmiri youth out of the 1600 advertised positions in the Jammu and Kashmir Bank. It was none other than the JKNPP MLA and Former cabinet minister Harsh Dev Singh who lambasted the state government saying the "Jammu region is being ignored" and that an inquiry committee should be constituted to look into the circumstances under which 1300 out of 1600 advertised posts in the Jammu and Kashmir Bank went to Kashmir. It was good that other Jammu-based MLAS, mostly those belonging to the JKNPP, the BJP and the JSM, joined hands with Harsh Dev and accused the state government of perpetrating injustice after injustice on the people of "Jammu region" and they did it knowing it full well that nothing would be done to compensate the Jammu youth.
The Jammu-based MLAs, it needs to be underlined, wanted the authorities to explain the reasons responsible for the exclusion of the Jammu youth from the list of selected candidates or for the selection of 1300 candidates from Kashmir, but nothing came out of their efforts. Instead, Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather, on behalf of the Government, replied that the "bank is an autonomous body and it cannot be discussed in the House". As expected, the JKNPP MLAs, backed to the hilt by the BJP and the JSM legislators, created noisy scenes in the House, shouted anti-government slogans and finally staged walkout.
The politics of creating noisy scenes in the House, shouting anti-government slogans and staging walkouts is not going to move the biased authorities or the biased administration. Nor is this kind of politics going to help the people of Jammu Pradesh. The people Jammu Pradesh need an administration that is their own. They cannot hope for justice and fair play under the existing system that he put persons from Kashmir at the helm in all or nearly all the departments and institutions, including the financial institutions like the Jammu and Kashmir Bank Limited. Only separation from Kashmir can enable them enjoy the rights they legitimately deserve as part and parcel of the Indian society. One can only hope and pray that these Jammu-based legislators would rise to the occasion and work from separation, instead of wasting their time in shouting slogans or staging walkouts. |
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