Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 19: Jammu and Kashmir Batwal Welfare Association (JKBWA) urged to Central Planning Commission for a ‘Special Economic Package’ for their community in the next five year financial plan.
The association today held a meeting and discussed the matters pertaining to ethnographic study of J&K Batwal community undertaken by the Planning Commission in 1994.
During the meeting, the members stated that in the year of 194, the Government of India launched a study to assess their socio, economic and cultural life of the said community in the erstwhile J&K State. However, the field work, as laid down by the commission started in forty village of Jammu region and same got completed in the month of April, 1994.
“The then Deputy Registrar General of India visited the State and exchanged the view with the Batwal community to explore the ethnographic/ anthropological background and other related issues and also collected the same survey report from the Directorate of Census Operation, J&K but ironically after lapse of 26 years, nothing concrete has been done to ameliorate the living standard of the rearmost Batwals so far”, they asserted.
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