Urging the Lt. Governor to give priority to the concerns of the educated unemployed and retrenched employees of various departments of J&K in the SAC meet scheduled for June 6, Harsh Dev Singh, chairman-JKNPP and former Minister said that the youth of erstwhile State had been treated most shabbily by the Centre as well as State during the past few years. Singh while addressing a press conference here, said never before had the educated youth of J&K been so marginalized, cheated and humiliated as during the BJP led Government. While drawing the attention of the SAC towards the pathetic condition of the disengaged health professionals and others he said they have been made to polish shoes on roadside. Seeking the revocation of dis-engagement orders of all terminated employees of Health Department, Information Department, PHE, Education Department besides other contractual and daily rated workers, Singh said that the Government move to oust them had operated very harshly against the educated youth during the Corona pandemic. While the PM had been repeatedly making media announcements that none was being dis-engaged, the ground situation was totally different with massive retrenchments having been affected by the Government, regretted Singh. Castigating the BJP Government for its double speak, Singh called for re-instatement of all SRO-24 ousted employees of Health Department, Information Department and the contractual lecturers of schools and colleges. He said that the lecturers engaged on contractual basis during 2019-20 should be allowed to continue for next academic session of 2020-21 as well in view of the fast spreading Corona Virus. There was no justification in replacing one batch of contractuals by another by holding another recruitment exercise which would only endanger and jeopardize several lives, he added. He further sought extension of around 550- subject specific teachers of SAMAGRA, originally engaged under RMSA and now disengaged in the most arbitrary manner. He turned the attention of the Government towards non release of wages of DRWs of various Government departments especially of PHE besides regularization of all eligible daily wagers and SPOs who had been made to wait for long. He called for grant of recognition and licenses to all those youth who had completed their diploma courses of Medical Assistants/ Pharmacists under State Para Medical Council for self employment which were being denied to them under new central rules.
