Married to males from Punjab, however denied job quota
Ruchika M Khanna
Chandigarh, January 22
“Punjabis are identified to be essentially the most accepting of all individuals. However plainly years after we left our paternal properties and got here to settle right here with our Punjab-born husbands, we’re nonetheless being labelled as “outsiders” or “migrants,” says a distraught Narinder Kaur.
Kaur, who was born and introduced up in Ambala, acquired married and settled down in Kharar. There are lots of girls like Narinder Kaur, who’ve been denied proper to hunt authorities job underneath the reservation standards. Their fault is that they belong to different neighbouring states, however acquired married in Punjab.
The state authorities is denying them jobs underneath the reserved class saying that although the candidates who migrate from one state to a different can not lose their standing of SC or ST, however they are going to be entitled to advantages/concessions admissible to them from the state of their origin and never from the state the place they’ve migrated.
Ruksana (42) says that this was her final probability to use for the job of grasp cadre trainer. She was born and introduced up in Panchkula, however acquired married in Mohali. “For 21 years, I’ve had a domicile of Mohali. Even kids of migrant labourers settled right here get the SC scholarships. However even after so a few years, we’re thought-about migrants. I’ve been chosen within the benefit listing. However my consequence has been withheld on this account,” she lamented.
Related is the case of Kulwinder Kaur, hailing from Ambala, however now married and settled in Banur. “My consequence has been withheld on the identical grounds, although my title is within the choice listing for grasp cadre trainer,” she rued.
Charu Parcha, who’s married and settled in Jalandhar, however was born and educated in Shimla, has been positioned on the eighth place within the choice listing for SC (M&B) candidates, amongst 89 to be chosen. “I used to be instructed that I may get a job solely in Himachal Pradesh. However I surrendered my reservation advantages there and am not getting these right here. It’s unfair that archaic legal guidelines and guidelines deny good thing about reservation to girls like us,” she stated.
Dr Baljit Kaur, Minister for Social Justice, Empowerment and Minorities, stated, “I’ve met some girls. The legal guidelines don’t allow them to get jobs underneath reservation for SC/ST. However I sympathise with the ladies and can take up the matter with my Cupboard colleagues.”
21 years on, nonetheless thought-about migrants
For 21 years, I’ve had a domicile of Mohali. Even kids of migrant labourers settled right here get the SC scholarships. However even after so a few years, we’re thought-about migrants. — Ruksana, job aspirant
Labelled as outsiders
I used to be instructed that I may get a job solely in Himachal Pradesh. However I surrendered my reservation advantages there and am not getting these right here. — Charu Parcha, job aspirant