Jammu, July 16: CM Omar Abdullah said that appointing officers in the Revenue Department without knowledge of Urdu would be ineffective.
He stressed the importance of basic Urdu language skills to handle revenue records, which have traditionally been maintained in Urdu since before Independence.
Omar said , If we appoint officers who cannot even read these records, what will they do?
Omar said that JKAS and IAS officers lacking Urdu knowledge are being given time to learn the language.
“Appointing Revenue officers without Urdu knowledge is futile. It is better to develop a policy allowing them some months or a year to acquire basic Urdu skills. If they do not know Urdu, they will not be able to read revenue records effectively,” he explained.
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