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BCC concludes 3 -day tour of Jammu division
7/13/2018 11:20:43 PM
Early Times Report

Jammu, July 13: J&K Backward Classes Commission headed by its Chairman, Jeet Lal Gupta during its visit to Jammu met with various delegations. The other members of the Commission, Prof. Virender Gupta and Advocate Onkar Seth accompanied the Chairman during the deliberations with the delegations.
The delegations those met the Commission are of the members of Other Backward Classes (OBC), Yogi Community, Boria Community and those of Gurdwara Granthis and Sewadars. The Other Backward Classes delegation was lead by its President, Muri Lal Balgotra submitted Memorandum to the Commission that Other Backward Classes have population between 11-16 lac whereas their representation as reserved category is merely 2 percent. He referred 1931 census of J&K State Government, Mandal Commission report and the recent census conducted by the State Government.
The Yoginath Community headed by Gyan Chand Yogi represented its case for inclusion as one of the Backward Classes. Gyan Chand argued that the community had been declared as backward class by the Mandal Commission and has a population 40-50 thousands and its members are downtrodden, socially backward and are living in adverse economic conditions.
The Boria Community also pleaded for its inclusion in other Backward Classes of the State. The name of the community existed in the State Government records, the members of community narrated. The delegation told the Commission that Borias are socially and economical most backward.
The delegation comprising of Granthis and Sewadars of Gurudwara led by S. varinderjit Singh also represented its case for inclusion in the OBC category while pleading that Granthis and Sewadar are very poorly paid and live in hand to mouth conditions.
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