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| 3-years after abrogation of Art 370, Valmikis living a dignified life | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 1: Raju, a sanitary worker in Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), has reason to celebrate the achievement of his son in the 12th standard examination conducted by the J&K Board of School Education, for the session 2021-22.
The Dalit Valmiki boy, has secured over 90 percent marks with an overall second position in the commerce stream.
Abrogation of Article 35-A has rekindled a ray of hope among the meritorious and deserving students of the Valmiki community to get their dreams fulfilled.
His dream is to become a Chartered Accountant so he opted for commerce. The boy is confident that he will fulfill his dream because after getting a domicile certificate he is now eligible to take admission in any government institute.
Valmikis cannot afford higher education for our children in any private professional institution due to their economic condition. After the abrogation of Article 35-A, their children are eligible to take admission in any government institute.
For the brutalized Valmikis in Jammu and Kashmir, the abrogation of Article 35-A had brought freedom and domicile status. For the first time in three generations, they became eligible for getting citizenship of J&K.
It was the result of a 63-year-long struggle that the government ultimately recognized these “helpless” Valmikis as “permanent residents” of J&K and granted them a domicile certificate to “liberate them from slavery.
Due to Article 35-A, Valmikis, living in different areas of Jammu since 1957, were not eligible for citizenship of J&K so they were denied admission in government institutions and were also debarred from getting government jobs.
The Decision of the government to abrogate Article 35-A has liberated our community from the worst ever slavery.
Living in Jammu since 1957 but Valimikies were deprived of all constitutional and human rights due to Article 35-A.
Their highly qualified youth were debarred from claiming any government job in J&K. They were entitled only to the job of sweeper in J&K.
The abrogation of Article 35-A has changed the destiny of the coming generation of the Valmiki community.
The agony of Valmikis started way back in 1957 when they were specially called from Punjab to be employed as Safai Karamcharis (sanitary workers) by the then Wazir-e-Azam of the erstwhile state of J&K, Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad.
Over 250 families of Valmikis were brought from Gurdaspur and Amritsar with the promise of providing them all constitutional rights like other citizens of J&K. It was on this assurance that the Valmikis from Punjab were agreed to work in Jammu. Since 1957, they were struggling to get rights that other residents of J&K were enjoying, but to no avail.
After the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, the permanent resident certificates (PRCs) law was abolished and replaced by the new Domicile Law. |
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