Modi-led BJP govt violating merit in IIOJK
Discrimination against Kashmiri youth exposed in JKPSC results
Srinagar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) overnment, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is violating merit in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the Modi government is systematically ignoring Kashmiri youth with serious violations of merit in government jobs, which is rapidly increasing anxiety and a sense of deprivation among the people of the occupied territory.
The results of the Joint Competitive Examination (CCE 2024) for Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service, announced by the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission on March 13, have opened the floodgates of so-called “merit” claims. The data shows that the process is opaque and discriminatory, which critics are calling “merit apartheid.”
According to the details, only 34 out of 90 candidates selected for medical examination belong to the open merit category, while this category constitutes about 75 percent of the total population. About 80 percent of the selected candidates belong to the Hindu-majority Jammu region, while the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley is represented by only 20 percent. In total, only 17 candidates out of 90 are from the Kashmir Valley, which clearly reflects the discriminatory trend.
Analysts say that these figures raise serious questions about the transparency of the examination process and reinforce the impression that the chances of success for open merit candidates, especially the youth of the Kashmir Valley, are being deliberately limited.
According to them, such alleged manipulation of competitive examinations is a systematic attempt to deprive Kashmiri youth of employment and make them vulnerable to economic pressure.
According to experts, the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission is being used as a political tool for “settler-colonial” engineering to appoint favored individuals instead of Kashmiri youth in key administrative positions. They warned that this policy not only negates the principles of merit but also amounts to making Kashmiris second-class citizens in their own land.
They called upon the international community to take notice of this situation and play its role in restoring merit, transparency and fundamental rights in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
