PATHANKOT, Jun 3: Lt Gen K J Singh, Army Commander, Western Command reviewed the security grid of Jammu Sector with local military commanders today.
Lt Gen Singh interacted with leaders of local Gujjar community during his visit. He assured that efforts will be made to train the local boys from Gujjar community to prepare them for recruitment in the Indian Army. He also said efforts would be made to provide education to the Gujjar children.
The Army commander also informed that efforts would be made for having a recruitment rally to join the Indian Army in Kathua and Samba district also. He informed them that the Army was acting as an important interface between the Gujjars and civil administration in Jammu region.
“They are being provided much needed veterinary care and in the last one month alone four veterinary camps have been held in the border area’s of Jammu region,” he added. Gujjar community leaders Arshad Chaudhary, Chaudhary Sardar Kahn (Retired Superintendent of Police from Kathua), Chaudhary Sultan Ali from Kathua and Qasim Din Baniya, District Chairman from Kathua were present on the occasion. On the sidelines of the visit, Western Command Family Welfare Organisation Regional President Anita Singh inaugurated the Anthony Shopping Complex in Janglot, designed to meet the daily needs of the soldiers and their families.
The complex is named after Lance Naik Anthony Nirmal Viji from Tamilnadu who made the supreme sacrifice while repulsing the terrorist attack on Janglot in March 2014. Speaking on the occasion, the Gujjar Community leaders thanked the Army commander for the meeting. Chaudhary Sardar Khan informed everyone during the peak of terrorism, in the Police force it was an unwritten rule to have a Gujjar PSO; as a Gujjar will never betray.
Mr Arshad informed that Gujjars were nationalists and have stood by the Indian Army in the 1965, 1971 wars and terrorism in J&K. They requested the Army to assist the Gujjar community in providing quality education for their children as they lack proper infrastructure and schools. (UNI)
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