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J&K Peoples Conference (JKPC) main and legislator Sajad Lone connected Monday (March 30, 2026) highlighted the discrepancies successful notifying the mediocre families’ colonisation betwixt the Jammu divisions and the Kashmir part and demanded a caller explanation for “who is simply a mediocre person” successful the Union Territory (UT).
Speaking successful the J&K Assembly, Mr. Lone said authoritative data contradicted its ain figures connected however galore mediocre families unrecorded successful the 2 regions of Kashmir and Jammu and termed it arsenic “a structural flaw that is distorting fairness successful employment and payment distribution”.
“According to the J&K Food Department, astir 39 lakh radical successful Kashmir and 27 lakhs successful Jammu person been identified arsenic mediocre nether Below Poverty Line and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY). In stark contrast, the Social Welfare model suggests an inverse world wherever 90% successful Jammu are classified arsenic economically anemic compared to conscionable 10% successful Kashmir,” Mr. Lone told the House.
Mr. Lone said it was “not conscionable statistical disorder but a argumentation nonaccomplishment with existent consequences”. “Recent recruitment outcomes, including judicial and Kashmir Administrative Services selections, saw disparities ne'er been witnessed historically since 1947. The mismatch successful definitions is systematically disadvantageous to Kashmir successful the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) quota, contempt crushed realities indicating otherwise,” Mr. Lone said.
He said a idiosyncratic is mediocre erstwhile receiving rations oregon subsidies but abruptly becomes ‘rich’ erstwhile applying for a job. “This duality undermines some logic and justice, exposing a fragmented administrative approach. With the authorities announcing 30,000 upcoming jobs, the existent EWS framework, hardly a fraction, perchance little than 100 positions, would scope Kashmir,” said Mr. Lone.
He cited States similar Kerala that person rationalized EWS criteria by aligning them with income oregon nationalist organisation strategy data. “Many states person moved distant from rigid asset-based criteria and alternatively adopted income-linked oregon PDS-based frameworks,” helium added.
Mr. Lone criticized the J&K authorities for failing to revise its criteria, “thereby depriving lakhs of Kashmiri younker of rightful entree to opportunities nether the EWS category, an contented helium stressed requires urgent attention”.
He urged the authorities to travel up with 1 explanation and marque a clear policy. “It is the urgent request of the hour,” Mr. Lone added.
