Asks Govt to ensure transparency, accountability
JAMMU, July 29: Senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister, Kavinder Gupta on Friday urged the government to stop unnecessary harassment of youth by ensuring a transparent recruitment process in the Union Territory of J&K.
He was speaking during a public grievances camp at Party Headquarters after interacting with a deputation of Library and Information Science (LIS) aspirants led by Karan Kumar. Sham Chowdhary former Minister and Munish Sharma incharge BJP all morcha also accompanied Kavinder during the camp.
Kavinder said that recent unfortunate incidents wherein scams have been exposed in the recruitment process are unacceptable and the government should come up with a failsafe mechanism to provide transparent and accountable environment especially in case recruitment process as youths have already faced hardships due to discriminatory policies of successive governments.
Scores of people visited the party office to put forth their woes pertaining to basic amenities, civic infra etc and sought intervention of the BJP leadership. Most of the people highlighted issues related to the development in their respective areas besides some personal matters.
The deputation of Library and Information Science (LIS) aspirants led by Karan Kumar and comprising Prince Pratap Singh, Anu Sharma, Mehmood Ayaz, Amit, Vivek and others took up the matter of eligibility issue with the former deputy chief minister. They also submitted a memorandum with regard to their demands.
They apprised the senior BJP leader that the Minimum Qualification required for the aforesaid post is Certificate course in Library Science but this course is outdated and obsolete as both the universities in J&K viz KU and JU have stopped these courses way back in 1985 and 1983 respectively and therefore there is no fun in making the same as criteria for recruitment.
Consequently, Kavinder contacted SSB Chairman Rajesh Shavan and placed the matter before him. Thereupon, the officer concerned assured to look into the matter at the earliest assuring that the interests of the aforesaid aspirants will remain his priority.
