In view of reports of Job scams hitting the headlines of various media channels every other day, scores of Panther activists led by Mr. Harsh Dev Singh, Former Minister and senior NPP leader assembled at Jantar-Mantar in New Delhi and started proceeding in groups towards the Parliament. While raising the slogans "Stop sale of govt jobs in J&K", Jammu-Kashmir mein naukri ghotalon ki nyayayik janch karao", Jammu-Kashmir mein yuvaon ko jumley nahin, naukri do", Modi sarkar hai hai, BJP sarkar murdabad, etc, the protesters were whisked away by Delhi police enroute. However, about a dozen workers along with Mr. Singh managed to reach near the Parliament to lodge the protest . The angry Panthers sought judicial inquiry into all the recruitment scams during the last few years.
Addressing the media regarding the much publicised scam in the selection of PSIs, FAAs and JEs in the UT, Mr. Singh said UT of J&K has earned the most dubious notoriety in employment scandals during the last few years. He said that while the govt failed to fill up the posts in various govt deptts in a fair and transparent manner, the culture of fake, backdoor and other paid appointments grew by leaps and bounds.
And whereas the recent past witnessed large scale retrenchments, of even the regularly engaged govt employees, the new UT saw the resultant vacancies being put on sale by the various recruitment bodies through blacklisted agencies, rued Harsh. He said that it was the public outrage and fear of adverse consequences that had forced the govt to rescind the said list wherein crores had been swindled by a corrupt mafia.
He endorsed the demand of agitating youth to disengage the APTECH co. hired for making recruitments in the UT. The irregular selections of Firemen and drivers made in Fire services Deptt through dubious means was also highlighted umpteen times in the media but the helmsmen have chosen to push the matter under the carpet for reasons best known, said Harsh. In another Job scam of gargantuan proportions, the J&K Bank made appointments of around 3000 Banking Associates and Clerks through backdoors which too has failed to invite due attention of authorities concerned despite the issue having been highlighted by the erstwhile State Governor Sh. SP Malik.
Alleging the commission of biggest recruitment scandal in BJP-PDP rule, Mr. Singh said that more than 4000 SPOs were engaged in 2017-18 through backdoor without following any procedure and the officers who made such appointments were rewarded with prized postings by the then BJP-PDP govt.
Mr. Singh disclosed that hundreds of backdoor appointments were made in KVIB during the BJP-PDP govt, with a few of them reportedly rescinded, as an eyewash and a window dressing for the gullible.
He said that several hundreds of backdoor appointments were made in Industries Deptt and its allied corporations during 2015-18 with none to take cognizance despite public outcries.
He said that the erstwhile coalition rule witnessed scams wherein hundreds of backdoor appointments in H&ME deptt were made by Chairman of Rogi Kalyan Samitis out of Hospital Development Fund in brazen circumvention of prescribed norms and regularities. He said that the number of daily wagers swelled to 1,10,000 in 2018 from 62000 in 2014 as per a reply provided on the floor of Legislative Assembly thereby providing the most glaring example of misuse of authority and patronized corruption during the BJP-PDP rule. Unfortunately the vigilante organizations too preferred to remain mute spectators in a bid to keep their political masters in good humour.
Pointing towards his short stint of three years as Education Minister, Mr. Harsh Dev said that he had made selections of 35000 youth as RET with not a single finger having been raised on the floor of the Assembly or outside. He said that even the National media had reported at the time that a history has been created wherein the transparent functioning of a Minister received all round appreciation across the board from ruling as well all opposition members without any exception.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Smt. Ashri Devi (DDC member), Smt. Sudesh Dogra, Mr. Gagan Pratap Singh besides others.
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