Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 27: Jammu and Kashmir Chopan Welfare Association (JKCWA) today held protest demonstration here demanding that the Government should grant tribal status to Chopan (shepherd) community.
They said the Government should also consider compensation for huge losses to its livestock, employment avenues (like posts of shepherds, attendants), quality education to their children through mobile schools and welfare measures for sheep breeders, Gujjar and Bakerwal communities.
JKCWA president Haji Abdul Aziz said that a resolution to grant Tribal Status to Chopan community was passed in the State Legislative Assembly in 2010 but the Centre has not taken any cognizance of that resolution so far. He said granting tribal status to Chopan community is a long pending genuine demand which needs consideration.
“The same community in our Jammu division has already been granted this status and there should be no discrimination as far as the status of community living in Kashmir is taken into consideration.”
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