Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 22: All J&K Labana Samaj Sudhar Sabha today demanded implementation of Mandal Commission Report in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
In a jointly addressed press conference here today, president of the Sabha, Jagjit Singh and Capt Bana Singh (PVC) Advisor and Gurjit Singh general secretary appealed to the Lt Governor of the UT of J&K for the implementation of the recommendations of Mandal Commission Report in J&K in order to give all the benefits of reservation to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) for the upliftment of these depressed and downtrodden people .
They said people of this class are Socially and Educationally backward and bring them at par with the rest of the society in this country. They demanded to change different nomenclatures given to different categories under the name of Socially & Educationally Backward Classes to OBC on the pattern of the rest of the country in order to do justice with people of these Classes who remained depressed for the centuries.
While elaborating Jagjit Singh said that a high power delegation of the Labana community recently met the Backward Classes Commission at Srinagar and brought into the notice of the Commission the plight of the Labana Community particularly the alarming rise of the unemployment among the Educated Labana youth in the UT of J&K. He appealed to the Government to take requisite measures for the implementation of the different schemes at the grass root level for the upliftment of the OBCs.
Labana Sabha also demanded political reservation for the OBCs in accordance to their population in Jammu and Kashmir . It was urged to the Delimitation Commission to identify Assembly Constituencies in the UT of J&K where the voters of the OBC communities are in majority and are a deciding factor as they are having a sizable chunk of voters throughout the UT of J&K.
Prominent among others who were present there included Paramjeet Singh, Surat Singh, Dalvinder Singh, Bachan Singh, Hazara Singh, Kuldeep Singh and Mohinder Singh.
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