Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 7: All India Confederation of SC/ST/OBC Organisations J&K showed its dismay over the recent age concession given by the JKPSC for the SC/ST/OBC candidates and the issues surrounding privatisation of the public assets.
Dr OM Sudha, national general secretary, All India Confederation of SC/ST/OBC Organisations, who is in Jammu while talking to media persons apprised them about the effects of privatisation which Modi Government has introduced. He also reminded about the promises made by PM Modi in 2014 in election campaign held in Jammu of toto implementation of Mandal Commission report. But it has merely become another Jumla, he added.
He said the privatisation is going to harm the reserved categories as well as the general category. There is already a pending backlog of 1.04 lakh of SC/ST/OBC youth of J&K. On top of that the unemployment rate is also high. Reservation in promotions are not being restored. All this will add up to create more problems for the common people, he added.
There were about 348 CPSUs in existence in 2018, with a total investment of Rs16.4 trillion and about 10.3 lakh employees in Central Public Sector Enterprises in 2019. He said about 70% of all profits generated in the Corporate Sector in 2020 were with just 20 firms. Since the SC/ST/OBC communities are not part of these big firms, they rely on seeking employment, which will get disturbed by privatisation.
Such concentration, mixed with the privatization of public assets, is likely to lead to higher usage fees already being seen in telecom and inflation, coupled with a loss of strategic control.
RK Kalsotra, State president Confederations, said that JKPSC has reduced age criteria for KAS exams from 37 years to 34 years for reserved categories. Even UPSC upper age limit is 37 years for SC/ST candidate. It is also mentioned that criteria and DOPT rule of minimum five year age relaxation to SC ST candidates is not being followed in UT J&K . It’s also mentioned that further five year relaxation for SC ST physically handicapped students is the policy, as per DOPT rules which is not followed in J&K.
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