Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference President Sajad lone on Saturday said that the whole reservation concept is rigged against the Kashmiri speaking population and against ST or EWS living in Kashmir.
In a post on X, Sajad lone wrote, “Kashmir as region is far far behind. The net loss of quotas to Kashmiri speaking population is of a much higher scale than we had thought.”
“The whole reservation concept is rigged against the Kashmiri speaking population and against ST or EWS living in Kashmir.” he said.
“Even the ST population living in Kashmir is a net loser. They make up a meagre 15% of the total applicants from the ST pool.” Sajad lone wrote.
“RBA is almost same but when you adjust for population, against it is less. Kashmir population is approximately 7% more. And areas under RBA are almost same proportionately. Yet in number terms they are behind Jammu.” the post reads.
“And lastly the Committe set up by government on 10/12/2024 to examine grievances has no specific timeline for submitting report. We were told it is 6 months timeline.” He said in a post.
Category-wise details shared by the JKPC President are :
DETAILS OF CATEGORY CERTIFICATES ISSUED IN JAMMU AND IN KASHMIR FROM 01/04/23
REGION SC %age
JAMMU 67112 100%
KASHMIR NIL 0%
REGION ST %age
JAMMU 459493 85.3%
KASHMIR. 79813 14.7%
REGION EWS %age
JAMMU 27420 92.3%
KASHMIR 2273 7.7%
REGION ALC %age
JAMMU 268 94.3
KASHMIR 16 5.7
REGION IB %age
JAMMU 551 100
KASHMIR 0 0
REGION RBA %age
JAMMU 1379 52.8
KASHMIR 1229 48.2
