Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 7: Jammu General Category People’s Forum held a meeting to highlight the grievances of general category people who are being denied their fundamental rights including right to be elected and equal opportunities.
Addressing the meeting the Forum President Prof Yash Paul Sanson demanded that Government should ensure equality and equal opportunities to all and all kinds of reservations, special privileges and concessions should be abolished.
“Birth should not be a qualification or disqualification. Government should take legal steps to make the caste irrelevant and talent be honoured in every field to make the country super power. The divisive and caste based discriminatory policies adopted by Government to get political gain at the cost of the general category people has been growing anger among them”, he added.
Som Nath Sharma, Forum General Secretary demanded Special Support Measures (SSM) for the poor, needy and deserving people of all castes to ensure their development and alleviation of poverty from the country. He condemned provisions of reservation which provided benefits to some professions economically and educational well developed.
VK Sharma, Vice President demanded that majority community be provided all benefits of schemes and programmes launched by the Government for minorities.
Bhushan Pargal Vice President demanded health care facilities for senior citizens and reasonable stipend to educated unemployed youth. He also demanded basic amenities like power, water supply, Health care and Road Connectivity. He stressed upon the Government for 50 percent cut in electric and water bills as people have been facing burden of heavy taxes which have increased their agony.
Dr Bansi Lal demanded that all pensioners be exempted from income tax as their pension is a sum of money paid by the Government to them because they are not in position to work anymore because of old age and illness.
Deepak Khajuria, Vice President demanded some legal restrictions in Jammu Kashmir (UT) on the purchase of land by outsiders as well as their appointments in Government jobs.
Forum demanded a safeguard like ‘domicile certificate’ so as to protect the interest of local people of Jammu Kashmir in respect of land and lobs.
In the end, Raj Kumar Banathia Chairman of the Forum presented vote of thanks.
Jagdish Dogra, Ravi Sahni, Vivek Kumar and Gopal Dass Verma also expressed their views in the meeting.
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