Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Feb 29: Stressing need for establishing of Tribal Developmental Council in J&K with the financial and developmental power for welfare and upliftment of Gujjar Bakerwal Tribe, Shamsher Hakla Poonchi the prominent Muslim Gujjar leader and an intellectual has appealed Government of India to take immediate steps in this regard.
Addressing a meeting of community members here today, he further urged Government of India to sanction special package for the permanent settlement of nomadic Gujjar Bakerwals of J&K, establishment of Tribal University in Jammu and Kashmir for all the students of the community, providing of basic facilities of life like road communication, electricity, water supply schemes, medical facilities and educational facilities in the areas that are inhabited by Gujjars Bakerwals in the UT.
The Gujjar leader also demanded establishment of Boarding Schools on the pattern of Navodya Vidyalaya for Gujjar Bakerwal students in all 20 districts of J&K, inclusion of Gojri language in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution of India which is being spoken by a very large number population of Gujjars -Bakerwals of Jammu & Kashmir, reservation of the Assembly segments and Lok Sabha segments in J&K for the Gujjar Bakerwal tribe as 31 Assembly and two Lok Sabha segments in J&K are inhabited by Gujjars Bakarwals.
Hakla demanded a special recruitment drive for educated unemployed Gujjar Bakerwal youth of J&K, conducting of a special survey for finding the exact population of Gujjar Bakerwal Tribe in J&K and starting of programme and the news bulletin in Gojri language on All India Radio, New Delhi and Doordarshan, New Delhi.
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