Jammu,:- Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee has asked the UT administration and Centre Government to review all anti-youth, anti-people and anti-employees decisions to ensure justice with different sections of youth.
Addressing a Press Conference at PCC HQ here today JKPCC Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma said that it took 5 years for the Govt. to acknowledge that SRO 2020 was unjust, unreasonable and exploitation of youth and against the principle of equal pay for equal work. Just 10 days before on June 4, when new recruitment rules were brought SRO 202 was again incorporated, despite series of protests for all these years.
It is the youth power which finally prevailed but questioned what about those employed between 2015 till date under SRO 202 and demanded that SRO 2020 should go retrospectively and all arrears of pay should be given to those recruited under SRO 202, so far.
He said it is tip of ice-berg a relief to the youth but the PDP-BJP Govt. had left a mess of youth policy and anti youth decisions apart from piled up problems of youth and employees and demanded that such anti-youth and anti-employees rules should be reviewed and revoked and youth friendly decisions should follow.
Flanked by various young leaders of the party including Dr. Rashid Choudhary, Pranav Shagotra, Ch. Ajaz Chodhary, Neeraj Gupta and Sanjeev Sharma, all young leaders who also represented youth congress, NSUI, Chief Spokesperson said that for long time youth and students organizations including youth congress and NSUI and entire opposition were opposed to SRO 202, since it was imposed in 2015 but it took 5 years for the insensitive system to hear the voice of the youth, students and employees and bring out amendments.
Fully supporting the demands of daily wagers, Casual Workers, need based, ITI and others for regularization, the party demanded that the Govt. should immediately regularize their services and ensure timely and regular wages to end exploitation of this young work force. He termed allocation of 5 marks in Class IV posts, as a cruel joke with daily wagers and demanded time bound regularization policy for them.
He said large number of educated work force has been engaged and employed in different departments for several years on adhoc, consolidated, contractual and academic arrangements but Govt. adopts a use and throw policy like medical employees under SRO 24, which is unfortunate. All such policies should be reviewed and revoked and pro-youth and people friendly policies should be adopted.
He demanded that those provisions of new domicile law, which allow outside categories to be eligible for all posts in J&K, should be reviewed and revoked, in the interest of local educated unemployed youth simultaneously those provisions in the new recruitment rules, which deprive the local youth of the district for even class IV, to get their rights should be reviewed and amended immediately for recruitments..
Reiterating the support to the genuine demands of youth and students for 4 G services, Mr. Sharma said that in the prevailing situation denying such facilities is great injustice with their career. Restore 4 G services atleast in peaceful areas immediately, he added.
He lashed out at the BJP for imposing anti people, anti- Jammu decisions and referred to the increasing number of toll plazas. This shows the duplicity and incompetency of the entire BJP leadership who are not ready to listen to the people who gave them huge mandate which is unfortunate.
He said that during the ongoing crises of Covid-19, the people especially youth are not able to agitate for all genuine issues of common people and those of youth, but asserted that would be highlighted and agitated in strongest possible means by the congress party and its frontal wings and different units. However he strongly criticized the administration for suppressing the voice of youth especially opposition over symbolic protests against some excesses on common people, as PYC President Udey Bhanu Chib, was put under house arrest today morning to prevent him to join a protest against the demolition action without due notice. This is totally undemocratic and unfair and shows the intolerance of the administration against symbolic peaceful protests of people, which is cornerstone of the democracy.
