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Rehbar-e-Khel: Exploitation under the garb of employment

Government needs to frame a job policy for the qualified lot who are paid less than unskilled laborers
by the engagement of candidates
against these 3000 positions in terms
of the policy for the engagement of
ReK.
All these candidates are render-
ing their services mostly in the gov-
ernment schools for the past three
years. But over the years, these
STORY OF THE WEEK candidates have become the worst
victim of exploitation as they are
SYED RIZWAN GEELANI paid just Rs 100 a day. The candi-
rizwangeelani@gmail.com dates are B.PEd, M.PEd and some
possess PhD degree as well. But for
last three years, the schools wit-
nessed a boom in the participation
of students in the sports events be it
indoor or outdoor with the proper
guidance of these physical teachers
recruited under the ReK scheme.
The person recruited as ReK
acted as a catalyst to ensure the
overall personality development of
the school children. While deliver-
ing their duties to broaden the spec-
trum of students in terms of sports
and help them in their personal-
The government recruited
these candidates after it
declared sports, games
and physical education
compulsory in all middle,
high and higher secondary
schools in J&K.
the day.
At the time of the implementa-
tion of the scheme, the government
decided that the monthly honorari-
um of ReK will be Rs 3000 per month
for the first two years which will be
later enhanced to Rs.4000 per month
from third to 7th year.
But the government had also
claimed that the policy will be
amended at any point of time with the
intention to secure the job of these
candidates along with the enhance-
enhancement of the salary and fram-
ing of a job policy for these ReKs.
As per the contents of the policy,
the government has claimed to ini-
tiate the regularization of Rehbar-
e-Khel employees in a staggered
manner on completion of their
seven years of service. So, it means,
the employees will continue to get
exploited with meager salaries given
by the government.
Keeping in view the role of
these ReKs the government should

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aunched with much fanfare,
the J&K government’s Rehbar-
e-Khel scheme has turned out
to be a nightmare for the youth
recruited by the government
in youth service and sports depart-
ment under the scheme.
Three years after their recruit-
ment in the department, the candi-
dates are hitting streets demanding
enhancement in salary and framing
of a job policy for them.
The government in October offi-
cially adopted the Rehbar-e-Khel
policy (scheme) with creation of
around 3000 posts Rehbar-e-Khel
(ReK). The process was followed
the government these qualified lots
are not even at par with unskilled
laborers who are paid more than Rs
500 a day.
The government recruited these
candidates after it declared sports,
games and physical education com-
pulsory in all middle, high and
higher secondary schools in J&K. It
was made mandatory for the depart-
ment of youth services and sports
to provide services of at least one
physical education teacher in the
schools to implement the decision.
Then the government claimed it
focus on the “Fitness for all” slogan
besides promotion and populariza-
tion of sports in J&K. And in these
ity development, these ReKs have
been subjected to mental agony and
depression.
On one hand, these ReKs are
entrusted with the duty of personal-
ity development of students while on
the other hand the same lot is given
step-motherly treatment.
Over the years, the young lot
of ReK have given their blood and
sweat in building the confidence
among the school children at the
cost of their own motivational power
and self-confidence because of the
atrocities of the successive regimes.
Rs 100 per day for these youth is at
all not justified, come what may.
During their services in the
department, these ReKs have con-
tributed their bit to bring in-parity
in the schools in imparting physi-
cal education and filled the gaps in
terms of deficiency of physical edu-
cation staff in the schools.
But there is no justification with
government to take credit for all
the achievements in promotion of
sports but should introspect and
should stop further exploitation of
these youth.
The matter of fact is that these
candidates were not handpicked by
the government for their appoint-
ment as Rehbar-e-Khel but they gone
through a rigorous selection process
only to get exploited at the end of
ment of their salaries as well.
Last year, the government consti-
tuted a high level committee to rec-
ommend the amendments to be made
in the scheme by virtue of which the
government would be able to frame
a job policy for these candidates and
enhance their salary as well.
Unfortunately, a year has passed
but there is no positive development
regarding this from the government
side due to which the candidates
recruited as Rehbar-e-Khel continue
to face exploitation from the govern-
ment.
Even the government doesn’t
even bother to instruct the commit-
tee to submit its recommendation on
address their problems and stop fur-
ther exploitation of these recruits.
If these candidates will continue to
face the same approach from the
government they will obviously
lose their motivation and confidence
which will mar the core aim of the
scheme launched in the schools.
The Rehbar-e-Khel scheme can
only sustain if the government
will encourage the recruits instead
of downing their morale and con-
fidence by making them victim of
ongoing exploitation. These ReKs
at least deserve to be treated at par
with unskilled laborers. Govern-
ment needs to address the grave
issue till it is too late.

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ed, which was proposed once. For well over 50 years, Technology (NIT), Warangal
to 35 degree Celsius and October month could be the the school calendar has remained constant, passed continent is the great Shams persons who are rare in mat-
most appropriate (vividly seen in the table) for annual invites applications for
through different turbulent phases and now it needs to NIT Warangal Department ur Rehman Faruqi. Shamsur ters of their cherished feats
examinations with morning and evening shis; and I be set right on priority to avoid the innumerable troubles Rahman Faruqi (born 1935) is and intellectual acumen. In
of Electrical Engineering
believe, even three on-line shis. We have now enough associated with winter examinations; and management Junior Research Fellowship the distinguished Urdu poet, one of his interviews curated
infrastructure both for online and off line examination in should act with competence and caliber. Recently, I pro- 2020 from BE/BTech/ME/ critic, theoretician, lexicogra- for New York Times he states
both regions of Jammu & Kashmir and lords at the helm posed that we should not say, “Goodbye to Paper-Pen MTech degree holders. The pher, novelist who inspired a “Of course, I was incompara-
of affairs are enough capable to set things right in both Based Examinations” to avoid unnecessary inconve- fellowship is applicable for a
lower and higher education. Description: whole chain of Urdu writers bly enriched by my love for
nience and shall continue to mention issues related to sponsored research project
Logical and a reasonable decision of University Grants titled, "Investigation and after 1970s. Being adept in ilm- pre-modern Persian and Urdu
education sector, till haemorrhage stops. e-bayan (poetic discourse), he poetry. Later, what went into
Commission (UGC), regarding freedom to the universi- Implementation of Model
ties to decide on an academic schedule and conduct Dr. Shah M A is Associate Professor, P.G Department of Physics, Predictive Control Strategies undoubtedly has sparked great my unconscious, more than I
exams based on the Covid-19 situation in the areas where National Institute of Technology Srinagar (NIT) Srinagar. to a Multi-Phase Permanent deal of lively debate and sus- realized, was my reading of the
Magnet Synchronous Motor tained discourse in the fading He had profound Dastan of Amir Hamza, a series
for PhotoVoltaic based Hybrid shades of literary adaptability of loosely linked oral romances
Electric Vehicle Applications knowledge of global
to the stresses of political and whose 46 volumes and 42,000-
literature in the realm
Talat Parvez visits Gandhi Memorial
with Reduced Torque Ripple".
cultural blocks which is quite plus pages and more than 20
The fellowship is open for rare in contemporary times. He of poetics, metaphor million words I read, and in
candidates who hold a BE/
initiated the movement of putting and signs, semiotics, some cases reread, since about

College, stresses for introduction of skill

BTech/or equivalent degree
to test the archaic compositions 1980. I’ll always remain obliged
in Electrical Engineering /
of Urdu literature in particular to
linguistics, and novel, to Frances Pritchett [professor
Electrical and Electronics
the modern and current methods spanning the genres. emerita at Columbia Univer-
development, vocational courses
Eligibility: Engineering. They must hold an
ME/MTech degree in Electrical prevailing in the world literature. sity] who directed my attention
Drives and Control/ Power No other person in the contem- to the Dastan”. One could just
Electronics / Industrial Drive and porary settings could have done dialects and the emotional imagine the determination and
Control/ Electrical Engineering.
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They must be GATE qualified.
justice to this experiment than contours taken care of in the passion Faruqi had for the liter-

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he commissioner secretary
Higher Education depart-
ment, Talat Parvez Rohella
visited Gandhi Memorial
College, Srinagar to inau-
gurate the newly constructed col-
lege auditorium and other took
review of the infrastructural
developments in the college.
The commissioner secretary
while speaking on the occasion
felicitated the CAT and empha-
sized on the need to promote
the skill development and intro-
duction of vocational courses
which are in tune with the local
demands of the society.
“I want to see Gandhi Memo-
rial College, Srinagar using its
expertise for contributing to the
field of education, grooming stu-
dents of the college for future,”
he said.
Principal of the College
Prof (Dr) Manzoor Ahmed Lone
extended his gratitude towards
the government for liberal fund-
ing for the newly constructed
Auditorium-cum-Chemistry
block and college main gate and
hoped that government will con-
tinue to extend financial support
to the institution for its infra-
structural development.
I want to see Gandhi
Memorial College,
Srinagar using its
expertise for contributing
to the field of education,
grooming students of the
college for future.”
“I hope that government
would redress the long pend-
ing demand of the employees of
the college regarding the settle-
ment of college takeover by the
government which has proved
stumbling block in granting post-
retirement benefits to the employ-
ees of this institution,” Lone said.
Chairman WIZKID, Mushtaq
Ahmed Mir also spoke about the
contribution of his organization
in motivating the students of the
valley to opt for skill develop-
ment programs in order to make
them self-reliant.
President College Teachers
Association (CTA) Tariq Ashai
said in his address that the over-
all scenario of higher education
in J&K has changed since Talat
Parvez Rohella took the reins of
the higher education.
Dr Syed Javaid Iqbal Kamili
(HOD Commerce & Manage-
ment) presented vote of thanks
to the chief guest and other dig-
nitaries at the occasion.
Faruqi itself. The fundamentals most sensitive and flawless ature and its subtle engrossing
Prizes & in the structure, and layered con- style. The same mesmeric and themes that had been almost
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structs of literature are always spell-binding flair traced to thrown to winds
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ing the cause of putting the name and started the rigorous and of Urdu. The articulateness,
VRDE-DRDO DISCIPLINE of Urdu literature in the global at times the sharp critics of wisdom and the methods
OF COMPUTER SCIENCE literary map; he always busied the reviewers that had been Faruqi applied into the Urdu
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himself with making Urdu rich well placed at the positional literature would truly remain
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Development Organisation
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Research Fellowship 2020 literature. to be mainstreamed. In every course. This legacy of relentless
from ME/MTech/BE/BTech Faruqi’s uniqueness was genre, he had the flawless grip inquiry, questioning the power
degree holders.
his non-conforming stance in which flashed from his rivet- structures and always adapting
The fellowship is open for understanding the pre-modern ing comments he made. From to the prevailing ideas would
candidates below 28 years and the modern eras of Urdu Paul Ricoeur to Amir Khusrau always be the effective mecha-
of age who hold a graduate
literature. He had profound and from Persian to Sanskrit nism for developing the base
degree in professional
Eligibility: course (BE/BTech) with first knowledge of global literature Faruqi was in all ways the face for real literature as opposed
division. They must also hold in the realm of poetics, meta- of Urdu in 20th century. to the codified and regimented
a Postgraduate degree in (ME/ phor and signs, semiotics, lin- He wore many hats at the mode of Urdu being sarkari
MTech) with first division. They guistics, and novel, spanning same time from literary critic zaban. On this Christmas we
must be NET/GATE qualified. the genres. He was bestowed to novelist to storyteller. had to receive the sad news
Prizes & INR 31,000 per month and with numerous awards and Deconstructing the poetic of Shams Ur Rehman Faruqi
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honors with prestigious sensibilities of masterpieces leaving for heavenly abode. It
Last Date to Saraswati Samman to his of poets like Ghalib, Mir, Iqbal surely is end of an era. May
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credit as well for his ground- he would always have the peace be upon him.
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