State employment discrminates against Valley, in favour of Jammu

does not surprise, but must be documented

For 334 posts, 151 selected from Jammu

Greater Kashmir October 5, 2009
Of 21 English Lecturers, Only 3 From Valley

MUDDASIR ALI

PET Selections For Kashmir Districts
Srinagar, Oct 4: There seems to be a definite angled pattern emerging in the selections being made by the State Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Services Selection Board (SSB) with the state’s one region grabbing the lion’s share of the selections, at all levels – state, divisional and district cadre.
The latest case in point is the selection of English lecturers made by the PSC on October 1 and that of Physical Education Teachers (PET) by SSB on October 3.
While only three candidates from the Kashmir valley figure in the PSC selection list of 21 English lecturers, the candidates from Jammu region have grabbed almost half of the openings filled up by SSB against the district cadre vacancies of PETs in the five valley districts.
Believe it or not, out of 334 selections of PETs the SSB notified on Saturday for the district cadre posts of Islamabad, Srinagar, Kupwara, Budgam and Varmul, as many as 151 candidates have been selected from the Jammu region.
As per the selection list issued by SSB, out of 137 selections of PETs made by the recruiting agency for district Islamabad, 52 candidates are from the region region.
Curiously, in certain cases, the column specifying the category of the selected candidates has been left blank. For instance, nothing is mentioned in the category column of the candidates appearing in the PET selection list of Islamabad at serial No 6, 7, 39, 42, 49, 67 and 98.
A candidate selected against the ST category (serial No 16) for district Islamabad is a resident of Rainawari in Srinagar. Similarly, another candidate with the surname of Dar and a resident of Sopur (serial No 20) has been selected against the Scheduled Caste (SC) category for district Islamabad.
For district cadre Srinagar, out of 95 PETs selected, 33 are from the Jammu region. Curiously, in the Srinagar selection list, only four selected candidates are the bona fide residents of the district.
The selection list for district Kupwara presents the most glaring instance of unfairness. All the 17 candidates selected against the district cadre posts of PETs for Kupwara are from Jammu region.
The candidates from district Budgam present almost the same picture as those of Kupwara. Out of 31 PET selections made against the posts of district cadre Budgam, 28 are from Jammu region.
Similarly, in Varmul, out of 54 PETs selected, 16 are from Jammu region.
As per the official figures, out of 3,689 divisional and district cadre selections made by SSB under the fast-track mode in the Kashmir valley, candidates from Jammu region walked away with around 750 posts while on the contrary just two candidates from the Kashmir valley got selected in 2521 district/divisional cadre selections made in Jammu region.