Mubashir Bukhari
Srinagar (NVI): Three days after issuing Gazette notification on domicile law in Jammu and Kashmir, the central government tonight amended it to provide for reservation in all jobs of the newly-created Union Territory for the domiciles, instead of only Class IV employees.
The amended notification was issued in the wake of criticism by mainstream parties of J&K.
It also has certain more amendments.
According to the official order, MHA amended section 5A of The Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (Decentralization and Recruitment Act) replacing “a post carrying a pay scale of not more than Level-4 (25500)” with “any post”.
In section 8 of the Act, it added “is a domicile of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir” thus making it mandatory for a person to be a domicile of J&K to get any government job.
The development comes after JK Apni party president Altaf Bukhari apprised National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Union Home Minister Amit Shah about the shortcomings in the central government order on domicile rights in the matter of employment and demanded that all levels of jobs including non gazetted and gazetted be reserved only for the residents of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Government issued Gazette notification on Tuesday, eight months after the abolition of special status of J&K.
According to the Gazette notification, “a person who has resided for a period of 15- years or has studied for a period of 7 years and appeared in Class 10th /12th examination in an educational institution in J&K, will be eligible to be the resident of Union Territory.”
The Gazette notification has been amended in 3 days.
In the initial notification, the jobs were reserved only for Class IV employees, which earned criticism.
