Instructions For Educational Benefits To Kashmiri Pandits: JKHC

Instructions for educational benefits to Kashmiri Pandits said- Stay within the purview of the law: Kashmiri Pandits.

The Division Bench of the High Court has directed the state administration to look into giving educational benefits to Kashmiri Pandits living in Kashmir.

In the petition of Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti, there has been a demand for educational benefits to Kashmiri Pandits living in Kashmir.

On this, Chief Justice Pankaj Mittal and Justice Vinod Chatterjee directed the Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir to look into the demand raised in the petition within the ambit of the law.

Instructions for educational benefits: The bench said that if the petitioner wants, he can put his demand before the Chief Secretary himself within two weeks.

It has been said in the PIL that for higher education, reservation is given in the central and state minority quota and SC-ST quota in colleges across the country.

The youth settled in Jammu and other cities of the country, who have been displaced from the Kashmir Valley, have also been given reservations in commercial colleges for higher education.

But the Kashmiri Pandits who are living in Kashmir are not getting any kind of reservation.

The PIL has sought the benefit of reservation given to displaced Kashmiri Pandits to Kashmiri Pandits living in Kashmir.

Instructions to the Commissioner Secretary to appear in case of non-compliance report.

After considering the contempt petition filed by Mohan Lal for non-compliance of the order of the High Court.

The High Court directed the Commissioner Secretary of the Forest Department within four weeks. Directed to submit a compliance report.

The High Court has said that in case of non-submission of the compliance report, the Commissioner Secretary should appear himself at the next hearing and clarify the situation.

According to the case, in the year 2012, the High Court had directed to make the petitioner permanent in his post.

The junior employees of the petitioner were made permanent four years ago and the High Court had said that all the benefits should be given to the petitioner by making him permanent from the same day.

Petitioner Mohan Lal, while filing the contempt petition, said that despite clear directions, his services were not confirmed.

The High Court observed that in this case also the department has been directed to submit the compliance report but the department did not take it seriously.

Therefore, the compliance report should be presented within four weeks or the Commissioner Secretary of the Forest Department should appear himself and clarify the situation.