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Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 10: The Jammu and Kashmir Batwal Welfare Association at a press conference held in Hotel Hot Millions here, today announced that 117th birthday of Sri Guru Gyagi Ji would be celebrated on February 14, 2014 with great enthusiasm at Shahzadpur Maratha and to look into the arrangements for birth celebration a committee under the headship of Capt. Kamal Chand Motan has been constituted. Association urged the State Government of Jammu and Kashmir to declare birthday of the Guru as public holiday in District Jammu by notification in the official Gazette. It also urged the Government to allot a suitable piece of land to the Batwal Community in the vicinity of Jammu for the construction of a Community Facility Hall.
Association President & former MLA Sat Paul Lakhotra while addressing the press conference said that the Batwal community which has big strength has been totally neglected by the Government at all levels and this has been the reason of its backwardness and abject poverty. He alleged that the Government Departments do not bother to take prompt action on the representations of his community members.
He stated that a representation dated 17.04.2013 forwarded by the Governor House to the Jammu University authorities for appropriate consideration has been lying in fermentation and also, another representation dated 03.07.2013, forwarded by the Chief Minister to the Social Welfare Department for necessary action, has fetched no response. From this it appears that we the tormented people have no effective say in the Government, he said.
Lakhotra, as such, urged both the Governor NN Vohra and the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to personally look into the matter and have long-drawn cases of his aggrieved community members resolved on merit by the concerned authorities. Lakhotra further stated that the Batwal community has not been given any representation in J&K Legislative Council, District Development Boards or any other forum of the Government though other privilege communities rotationally availed this opportunity. He demanded that Batwal community be also given an opportunity to represent itself in these bodies. |
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