Srinagar: Minister for School Education Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali Friday said that responsibility needs to be fixed on the concerned department in School Education, Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education, and Haj and Auqaf , for why litigations are getting filed.
Alil is also Minister for, Haj and Auqaf and Tribal Affairs Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali. He impressed on concerned to reduce the litigation against the departments by creating a transparent mechanism.
“We have to make people in our departments responsible and most importantly make them accountable so that plaintiff is not forced to go to court,” Ali said.
Ali made these comments while peaking during a meeting to review of the ongoing court cases against the School Education, Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education, and Haj and Auqaf.
“It is imperative that such a mechanism is put in place which would ensure that people are heard and their issues are settled amicably much before they decide to go to court,” he said.
Giving the break-up of cases of School Education, the meeting was informed that a total number of 1159 cases is pending in Kashmir province. Out of this 822 are pending before High Court, 183 are pending before subordinate courts, 149 are contempt petition, while as five cases are of public interest litigation (PIL).
For Jammu division, a total number of cases pending are 2036, out of them 1921 are pending in High Court and 115 are pending before subordinate courts. Likewise, court cases pending in the administrative department are 3283.
The meeting was informed that 510 cases of JKBOSE are pending. Out of them, 240 are for Kashmir province, while 137 are for Jammu province. Out of them 64 are in HC, while as number of appeals is 10 and different correction petitions are 59.
Advocate General Jahangir Iqbal, Secretary School Education Farooq Shah, Chairperson JK BOSE Prof Veena Pandita, Commissioner Secretary Revenue Shahid Inayat-ullah, Director School Education Kashmir G N Itoo, Director School Education Jammu Rakesh Srangal, Special Secretary H L Sethi, and concerned law officers and departmental staff were present in the meeting.
