Panthers Party irate over qualified being denied Class-IV jobs

| Jammu |

Peeved over the exclusion of candidates having qualification above 10+2, from participating in 8575 Class-IV recruitments, the activists of JKNPP stage a protest demonstration and torched the effigy of the BJP government. The protestors raised slogans of �Pade Likhe Yuvaon Ke Saath Insaaf Karo, Insaf Karo�, �BJP Hai Hai� and �Andhe Kanoon ko Wapis Lo, Wapis Lo�.
The JKNPP activists accused the BJP government of betraying the educated youth with negligible job avenues having been created during the past six years of saffron rule. They said that while the tall slogans of BJP of empowerment of youth proved a hoax after its ascendance to power, the highly qualified youth have been the worst sufferers of govt�s ill conceived policies. The educated youth were made to wait for five to six years in the hope that BJP would translate its promises of providing two crore jobs per year into reality with at least one job to each household. It�s leadership had been assuring even the middle pass candidates of absorption in gainful employment he said. It was, however, regrettable that even the PhDs, MPhils and Post-Graduates were made to languish on the roads with none to listen to their shrill cries for justice.
Pointing towards the recent notification for 8575 posts of Class-IV, the agitating activists said that it was ironical to note that candidates with more than 10+2 qualification had been debarred from applying for the said posts. The government had failed to advertise any jobs for highly qualified despite thousands of vacancies in colleges, schools, hospitals and other health institutions and other professional intuitions under the pretext of resource crunch. The net result was elimination of M.Phils, PhDs, NET, SLET, Graduates and Post-graduates besides professional degree holder youth from all kinds of selections thereby doling out the most contemptuous treatment to them, their only sin being that they were highly qualified. Taking a pot shot at the BJP government, they said that while it was releasing scholarship to the wards of militants, it was shamelessly showing empty coffers to the educated youth who had catapulted it to power. Seeking the review of advertisement notification, they demanded that all Class-IV posts should be open to all above middle pass without any bar on maximum qualification in the interests of justice and fair play.