BJP seek LG’s intervention as mandatory Urdu test for revenue official recruitment sparks outrage in Jammu | India News

File photograph: J&Ok LG Manoj Sinha (PTI)

JAMMU: The mandatory requirement of information of Urdu for recruitment as naib tehsildars (revenue officers) in Jammu and Kashmir has triggered uproar in the Jammu division, with J&Ok BJP brass assembly LG Manoj Sinha on Thursday to press for scrapping the transfer.The J&Ok Services Selection Board (JKSSB) issued a notification on June 9 for the recruitment of 75 naib tehsildars, with Urdu language test designated obligatory to qualify for the submit.The notification has youths and organisations up in arms in the Jammu area, the place college students principally research Hindi or Punjabi. Students and BJP-affiliated organisations have held protests decrying the transfer and accusing the Omar Abdullah authorities of depriving Jammu’s youths of employment alternatives.J&Ok BJP president Sat Sharma and chief of opposition in the meeting Sunil Sharma on Thursday known as on the LG and sought his intervention. Pointing out that the UT had 5 official languages — Hindi, English, Kashmiri, Dogri and Urdu — they stated making the data of one among these languages mandatory violated the constitutional ideas of equal alternative and administrative impartiality. The transfer created an unfair barrier as it was disadvantageous to aspirants from the Jammu division, they careworn.BJP MLA Vikram Randhawa described the eligibility criterion as a “conspiracy to block Jammu youth from securing govt jobs”. Former deputy CM Kavinder Gupta of the BJP demanded a right away assessment of the choice and known as for guaranteeing a degree enjoying area to all candidates, regardless of their regional and linguistic backgrounds.Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activists held an enormous protest in Jammu towards what they termed a discriminatory and biased provision. ABVP, too, organised protests in any respect district headquarters in Jammu.Lashing out on the Omar govt, head of J&Ok chapter of BJYM, Arun Prabhat, stated: “The imposition of Urdu is a deliberate attempt to exclude deserving candidates from Jammu. Such regional discrimination will not be tolerated and we demand an immediate rollback.”An argument over the problem in the previous had prompted the J&Ok administration to resolve in Nov 2022 that Urdu wouldn’t be mandatory for the naib tehsildar recruitment test, at any time when these are held. Since then, JKSSB had not marketed any vacancies for the submit or initiated the recruitment course of.However, J&Ok Urdu Coordination Committee, Kashmir wing, had at the moment expressed disappointment over the choice.