Early Times Report
Jammu, May 29: The Batwal Youth Development Committee spokesperson R L Kaith today stated that in early 1994, the Government of India launched a study to assess the socio, economic and cultural life of Batwal Community in the J&K State.
The field work, as laid down by the Central Planning Commission, started in about forty villages of Jammu region and got completed by April, 1994. Thereafter, the then Deputy Registrar General, India visited the State of J&K 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 but the after passage of 27 years, nothing concrete has, till date, been done to ameliorate the living standard of rearmost Batwals of the State.
As such, Kaith urged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sympathetically consider the pending report of Ethnographic Study and be kind enough to sanction the much needed ‘Economic-cum-Employment Package’ to rearmost Batwal Community in the fairness of justice, so as to enable it to lead a dignified life like other evolved products of the society. |
