When in 2010 Muhammad Shakir completed his post-graduation, he was jubilant. He is now a shattered man. Fighting to secure a job, Shakir, now 34, has lost the count of filing applications for different government vacancies in last decade. His efforts have yet to be successful. Every time he has a hope, either the final section list gets delayed or the court’s intervention puts the list on hold.
After August 5, 2019 when the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its special status and downgraded into two federally governed Union Territories (UT), Shakir’s concern about his future has grown manifold. As the government has not come out with any job advertisements, Shakir laments that he has only a few years left to cross the age bar. Besides. he has apprehensions if domicile rights on jobs would stay.
“Our jobs were reserved for the state subjects only but we are not now sure if this provision stays or goes,” Shakir says.
He recalls the recent notification of High Court that advertised posts, which kept eligibility criteria for entire India. Shakir is happy that the notice was withdrawn. “But you never know if it is not repeated,” he says.
Shakir says that he had high hopes when the last governor of erstwhile State Satya Pal Malik announced after August 5, that around 50,000 youth will be hired for government jobs in the next three months.
But in the name of new job opportunities, J&K only saw two job notifications, one by JKPSC for the posts of Munsifs and another by High Court, J&K for class-4 employees. Shakir says both notifications were rolled back.
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Before The Kabul Retreat
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FINGERS CROSSED
Almost everybody in academia and politics that Khalid Bashir Gura spoke to, the response over Kabul happens was simple – wait and watch
Parliamentary Committee In Srinagar
The visiting 28-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs have had detailed interactions with top civil administration and discussed developmental scenario and people’s welfare measures in Jammu and Kashmir. It is on a 4-day visit. Congress leader and MP Anand Sharma is heading the committee.
MUSIC IN MUD HOUSE
Deep into north Kashmir, Faheem Mir meet a small community that sings and lives on folk music but is facing a tense situation in the last few years
THE KABUL SPILLOVER?
Security experts are divided over the possible impact of the Kabul situation on Kashmir. But the dramatic Taliban triumph has altered the region’s geopolitics, for the time being, writes Riyaz Wani
Durga Bhawan At Katra
To enhancing facilities for the convenience of the Vaishno Devi pilgrims, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha laid the foundation for the Durga Bhawan, a high utility pilgrim-centric facility worth Rs 24.4 crore. The facility will accommodate 4000 pilgrims.
Women Empowerment
In the first, 480 talented girls from Jammu and Kashmir were included in the degree and diploma courses of the Pragati Scholarship. Jammu and Kashmir has also got nine scholarships under the Saksham Scheme for Persons with Disabilities.
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Foreign policy expert and editor of HardNews magazine, Sanjay Kapoor believes that Taliban 2.0 has more legitimacy unlike in the past as it had signed a deal with the US and negotiated with other countries of the region, but the final verdict can be passed only after it manages ticklish issues involving half of its population, the women
Boredom Is Creative?
Getting bored is not as boring as it gets, writes Azra Hussain
LG In Bangus
Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha inaugurated the Bungus Awaam Mela amidst grand arrangements for village games, exhilarating local performances, and other activities to celebrate the 75th year of Independence.
