Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 22: Jammu and Kashmir Batwal Welfare Association (JKBWA) has urged the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to resolve their genuine issues at the earliest.
In a meeting of the association held here today and chaired by its chairman, Sub Maj (retd) Romesh Sargotra, the members discussed the main demands of the Batwal Community.
They stated that in 1994, the Government of India with an object to ameliorate the living standard of the Batwal Community members launched a study to assess their socio, economic and cultural life in the J&K State, which got completed by the end of April 1994. “Thereafter, the then Deputy Registrar General, India visited the State and exchanged the views with the elite of the Batwal Community to explore the ethnographic/anthropological back ground and other related details and also collected the Survey Report from the Directorate of Census Operations, J&K”, they added.
They regretted that even after passage of 20 years, nothing for the upliftment of the Batwal Community has been done by the Government. The association members, as such, urged the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to take up this matter with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi (who also happens to be Chairman of the Central Planning Commission) so that steps are taken for holistic development of rearmost Batwal community.
The meeting also invited the attention of the Chief Minister towards their memorandum forwarded to her office by the Governor House vide communication dated Nov 10, 2015 and urged her to take steps to consider the genuine and legitimate demands of the Batwal community members at her earliest convenience.
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