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After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal.What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don't correct them harshly. Don't rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment.
From Kupwara to Baramulla, from Srinagar to Anantnag, from Rajouri to Poonch, from Jammu to Kathua and all through our hearts!
After 66 years, finally! Congratulations Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Team. ♥️
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"Kashmiri students going to jammu centres for writing mains in CCE from last few years and then making it to final merit list" is a stark reality that no one can evade.
I understand the sense of hurt and disappointment which might have caused to those aspirants who failed to make it to the final stage of the exam for Judicial services.
Competitive examinations especially judicial services are emotionally draining and when results appear skewed, it is natural to look for explanations.
However, it is important to separate emotion from evidence and perception from process.
First, a written mains examination is purely merit-based. The examiner evaluating answer scripts does not know the identity, region, religion or background of any candidate.
Answer sheets are anonymised through coded numbers. Evaluation is confined strictly to what is written on paper.
Second, this is not a closed or opaque system. Every candidate has the legal right to apply under the RTI Act, obtain photocopies of their evaluated answer sheets, compare model answers, marking patterns, examiner remarks and publicly demonstrate with evidence if there has been arbitrariness or bias
This mechanism exists precisely to prevent injustice. If a candidate believes they wrote well, the system allows them to prove it factually not rhetorically.
Third, reservation does not operate inside the evaluation of a written paper. Reservation applies after marks are awarded at the stage of selection and cut-offs. It cannot explain performance gaps in a mains examination where answers are marked blindly. Blaming reservation for outcomes in a written exam risks misdirecting anger away from the real issue.
Fourth, it is worth acknowledging an uncomfortable but necessary truth.
Clearing prelims and clearing mains are fundamentally different challenges.
Many strong prelim candidates across India fail mains every year. This is not unique to any region.
Finally, politicising individual academic outcomes helps no student. Governments can improve coaching access, mentorship, libraries and institutional support but no government writes an answer on behalf of a candidate in a judicial exam.
And before i conclude, Saying that one region has got more than another is a flawed way of looking at a competitive written examination. Judicial exams do not operate on regional entitlement. They operate on individual performance.
The correct question is not why Jammu did better or why Kashmir did worse but whether the evaluation process was fair and blind. In this case, it was. Mains answer scripts are anonymised. Examiners do not know whether a candidate is from Jammu, Kashmir or anywhere else. They assess only the quality of legal reasoning, structure, accuracy and application of law.
Regional comparisons also ignore a basic reality of competitive exams. Outcomes vary year to year. In some cycles, one region performs better; in others, the balance shifts. This fluctuation happens and it is not proof of bias. It is a feature of merit-based selection.
Claiming “we deserved more” risks turning personal disappointment into collective entitlement which is neither fair to those who qualified nor helpful to those who did not. Every candidate who made it to the list did so by clearing the same papers under the same conditions.
Pain deserves empathy but conclusions must rest on proof. If injustice exists, RTI is the way forward not assumptions that undermine both institutions and one’s own hard work. The disappointment of aspirants from Kashmir region is real. But doubting the integrity of a blind, reviewable written examination without evidence will only weaken your case not strengthen it.
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Addressing a long-pending demand of the tribal population of J&K, the Government has designated the Tribal Affairs Department as the Nodal Department for implementing the Scheduled Tribes & Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, replacing the Forest Department. This step will ensure more effective implementation of the Act while safeguarding the rights of our tribal communities.
@JavedRanaa