Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 18: The Jammu & Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) in a meeting held at Jammu apprised its members that a letter has been flashed to Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah and Lt. Governor, Manoj Sinha to seek their immediate intervention for issuance of Schedule Tribe-II category certificates to the Pahari speaking people of 1947 from PoJK, settled in other districts of Jammu region beyond Rajouri and Poonch.
The said certificates are not issued to them by the concerned administrative department and its designated authorities despite of crystal clear rules framed in this regard by the Govt. JKSAC also urged to Dr Jitendra Singh Union MOS; Vikram Randhawa and Arvind Gupta Members Legislative Assembly to take up this legitimate issue immediately with the Govt. as they have been given massive mandate by the Pahari speaking displaced persons residing in their respective constituencies.
Gurdev Singh, JKSAC president alongwith Capt. Puran Singh Chib and Ajit Singh (Vice presidents), Netar Parkash and VK.Sudan (Secys.), Dwarka Nath Khajuria and Rajesh Khajuria said that certain vested interested elements within the concerned administrative departments has deliberately created the confusion and misinterpreting the rules/law leading to further complications for the Govt.
The participants strongly condemned this callous and discriminatory attitude of the concerned bureaucracy continuously in process to create discord between Pahari speaking ethnic group of 1947 from PoJK and Govt. of J&K. He told the participants that it has become imperative now to highlight, that thousands of families migrated from the areas of Poonch, Muzafrabad and Mirpur districts of erstwhile princely state of J&K now POJK under unavoidable circumstances. These displaced people were temporarily rehabilitated by the then Govts under its rehabilitation policy in different districts/tehsils of Jammu region as per the availability of lands allotted to them, with the result that these PoJK DP families having same distinct culture, ethnic and linguistic identities of Pahari community/clan, speaking Pahari language got scattered.
It is highly discriminatory that DPs residing in Poonch and Rajouri have been granted ST-II status whereas their other relations residing in Jammu/ Kathua/ Samba/ Udhampur etc. are denied the legitimate rights of being granted ST-II status. They sought intervention of Lt Governor and Chief Minister into the matter.
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