The move, which came a day after lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha ordered the shifting of all migrant employees in the Union Territory to district headquarter towns by June 6, coincided with a rural bank manager from Rajasthan becoming the eighth victim in a rash of targeted terror attacks since May 1.
Sources said many Kashmiri Pandits living in rented houses in Srinagar’s Shivpora neighbourhood had left for their native places in Jammu division for fear of more selective terror attacks. What was a trickle at the start of the week seems to have turned into an exodus after Thursday’s killing of Vijay Kumar, branch manager of Ellaqui Dehati Bank at Areh Mohanpora in Kulgam.
Nearly 8,000 government employees from different districts of Jammu and around 2,000 from various parts of the country work in the Valley.
Ramesh Chand, a schoolteacher posted in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, said the continued terror attacks on civilians had made it amply clear that nobody was safe in J&K, be it Muslims, Hindus or Sikhs. “Anyone can become a victim of a terror attack at any time.”
Fellow schoolteacher Anjana Bala, who works in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, said it was pointless shifting non-Muslim employees within the Valley because there was no such thing as a safe zone given how terror outfits were striking at will. She said those from Jammu division should be sent back there, at least till a semblance of normalcy returns.
Placard-bearing education department employees in Jammu have been protesting schoolteacher Rajni Bala’s killing outside her school since Wednesday and demanding that those likely to be targeted like her be relocated immediately.
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