Centre redefines domicile rule for J&K
WHAT THE NEW POLICY ENTAILS?
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: The Centre has reset the domicile policy of Jammu and Kashmir nearly eight months after pushing through provisions stripping it of its special status and converting it into a Union territory (UT), and immediately triggered protests by Kashmiri political parties that it discriminated against the people of the erstwhile state.
According to the policy notified by the Union home ministry, any person who has stayed in Jammu and Kashmir for 15 years or studied in the region for seven years and appeared in the Class 10/12 examination will be eligible to call it his or her domicile, or permanent home.
What it means is that anyone who meets the criteria would be eligible for appointment to junior posts in the bureaucracy and the constabulary in the UT. The
A new domicile policy was necessitated for J&K after the Centre scrapped Article 370 of the Constitution on August 5, 2019
Anyone, who has stayed in years, will also be considered to Jammu and Kashmir, for at be domiciled least 15 yrs; or studied there for
Children of natives of J&K, who 7 yrs will be eligible for jobs
reside outside the Union Children of central government Territory due to professional or officials, All India Services, vocational reasons, will also be officials of Public Sector treated to be domiciled if their Undertakings and autonomous parents fulfil the criteria bodies of central government, public sector banks, officials of Rules apply for recruitment to statutory bodies, officials of all posts with a basic salary of central universities and ~25,500 recognized research institutes, Earlier, J&K state assembly had who have served in J&K for 10 the right to decide domicile
domicile rule would apply for recruitment to all posts that come with a basic salary of Rs 25,500. The government order said children of officials belonging to the central government, its autonomous bodies, All India
Services, public sector industrial units and banks, central universities and recognized research institutes who have served in J&K for 10 years will also be considered to be domiciled in the UT.
Children of J&K residents who reside outside the UT because of employment, business or other professional reasons will also get domicile if their parents fulfil the eligibility criteria to get a domicile certificate.