The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP termed the leak as a breach of security and demanded action against the officials responsible for “leaking” the names and place of posting of the officials. Kashmiri Pandit Teachers employed under the Prime Minister’s Rehabilitation Package in Kashmir.
People called the policy of transfer of teachers a ‘strange idea’. “I have been shifted from Anantnag to Jawahar Nagar School in Srinagar. But my engineer husband still has to travel 10 km on Gulmarg road to Shalteng. We have been instructed not to send our children to schools for some time,” said teacher Neeru Pankaj.
She said that her seven-year-old daughter, a student of DPS Srinagar, is afraid to go to school. “We have decided to go back to Jammu.”
Most Kashmiri Pandit families have left their “rehabilitation” colonies to escape the recent surge in deadly terrorist attacks targeting Hindus living and working in the Valley. Those who were left behind were accommodated in heavily guarded residences built for them, with the government not allowing them to leave or acceding to their demand to be shifted out of Kashmir.
social welfare officer Ranjan jotshi The U.S. said 96 Kashmiri Pandit families had been living in Mattan in Anantnag district since 2010, but only eight had stayed in a government-built camp following a spike in targeted killings in recent months. “Apart from those in the camp, around 250 families were living in rented accommodation. They have all gone to Jammu,” he said.
Nine targeted killings have been recorded in Kashmir since May 1 – three off-duty policemen and six Citizen. Dalit teacher Rajni Bala, a bank branch manager from Rajasthan, and a migrant brick kiln worker were killed since May 31.
The question on everyone’s mind is that terrorists in Srinagar and other big cities will not target them when they can kill government clerk Rahul Bhat and bank manager. Vijay Kumar In your offices or outside your school?
“What about employees of other departments like social welfare, roads and buildings? They have not issued any transfer order,” said Rakesh Pandita, a resident of Nuthusiya in Handwara in the border district of Kupwara.
He said that only 20 Kashmiri Pandits are left in his camp. “There were 350 people in Kupwara’s Knutusiya, including those who had rented houses in the area. Nobody wants to risk their lives.”
According to Jotshi, who is currently posted in the DC office of Anantang, there is more frustration among the people due to official apathy. “We had a meeting with Divisional Commissioner Pandurang K Pol at his Srinagar office on May 7. Instead of listening to us patiently, he asked his security to detain me. I was later released.”
Avtar Krishna, a teacher posted at Langate in Baramulla, said the Kashmiri Pandit employees want the government to shift them out of Kashmir and not shift them to the district headquarters in the Valley. “I approached the director of school education in April, before Rahul Bhat was murdered in Chadoora tehsil office. I told him about my fears…that I felt threatened. They did not respond,” he alleged.