Jammu, October 19: Under the banner of ‘All Jammu-based reserved categories employees association’, scores of protesters observed a massive agitation on Wednesday in Jammu to press for their transfer from Kashmir to their home districts in the Jammu region following a string of targeted killings by terrorists in Kashmir, recently.
“First of all I want to say that I’m a Dogra and from last 15 years the government has locked us in one place in Kashmir by refusing us transfers to somewhere else. Today, I want to say that the J&K is the only place in whole India, where there is still no provision for the govt employees to get themselves to transfer to some other place. We also want to live with our families and from last 15 years the administration has restricted us to one region, where we are doing our services”, one of the protestors allegedly said while talking to the media.
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She further said that the target killings have been going on from past one year in Kashmir and since one forty days they and Kashmiri migrants have been informing the local administration about the same.
“The terrorists are issuing death threats through letters in our names which reads that we should not come in Kashmir to resume our services and if we happen to go there they have said that they will kill us”. The terrorists are claiming our killings, but this govt cannot take the responsibility of just 7000 of employees. The administration should tell us whether we should follow their diktats or of terrorists, she added.
She further added that the Divisional commissioner of Kashmir has failed in evaluating the situation and cannot handle the affairs of a place like J&K and said that he should go back.
“From past four months our salaries are withheld by the local regime and what of administration is this who talks high of Hindu lives but on ground does nothing for them. The local govt is just waiting for our pile of corpses and they are not anything in our favour. Our biggest festival diwali is coming but we are penniless here. We appeal to the local regime to do something for us, she said.
Aman Zutshi
