Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 22: Lambasting the Government for denying recognition to the Pharmacists/Medical Assistants who had completed their course before the reorganization of J&K, activists of JKNPP along with the affected candidates led by Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP staged a protest demonstration here today.
The protestors raised slogans demanding registration of Pharmacists along with issuance of licenses to them.
Addressing the protesters Harsh Dev said that delay and deny over issuance of registration and licenses to all such candidates on the pretext of repeal of earlier laws was absurd and ridiculous.
He said, it was highly unjustified and rather atrocious to deny recognition of courses conducted under the then laws of the erstwhile J&K State prior to August 5, 2019.
“There are around 25,000 candidates who had passed various para-medical courses under J&K Pharmacy Act from recognized institutes in the then J&K State before the abrogation of Article 370 and these candidates are now denied registration and licenses by the J&K government as the previous Act is no more in force after the re-organization of J&K,” Singh maintained.
He sought personal indulgence of Union Health Minister and Medical Council of India for recognizing these courses as the same were completed under the then existing laws of J&K State.
The protesters also torched the effigy of central government.
Harsh Dev also expressed concern over the admission of even fresh batches for such training courses in various AMT schools of J&K in pursuance of the earlier advertisements issued under J&K Pharmacy Act.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Rajesh Padgotra, Surinder Chouhan, Vipan Kumar, Anies Ahmad, Raj Pratap Singh, Mukhtar Ahmed, Manpreet Singh, Sourav Sharma, Ankush Kumar, Vishal Kumar, Sourav Thapa, Javed Iqbal, Anil Kumar, Umar Farooq, Mohit Sharma, Ragubir Singh, Khajur Singh and others.
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