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| Amit Shah keeps his promise, NCST clears way for granting ST status to Paharis | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 3: Within a month after the promise of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) cleared the way for the inclusion of the “Pahari ethnic group” in the Scheduled Tribes list of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Reports said that NCST has now cleared the way for the inclusion of the “Pahari ethnic group”, “Paddari Tribe”, “Koli” and “Gadda Brahman” communities to be included in the ST list of J&K.
Reports said that the NCST has examined the proposal received from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. The NCST supported the proposal based on the recommendation of the Office of the Registrar General of India.
The suggestion for inclusion had come from the commission set up for socially and educationally backward classes in the Union Territory, headed by Justice (Retd.) G.D. Sharma.
Paharis will be the first linguistic group to get Scheduled Tribe (ST) status in the country. The central government needs to amend the Reservations Act in Parliament to grant ST status to Paharis.
While addressing rallies Rajouri and Baramulla on October 4 and 5, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had promised that the Pahari-speaking people of Jammu and Kashmir will get Scheduled Tribe (ST) status.
He, however, announced that ST status will be granted to Paharies, but not at the cost of the rights of existing scheduled tribes of the Union Territory.
The Union Minister assured like Gujjar and Bakerwals, Paharis will also get ST status as it was the long pending demand of this community.
He, however, assured Gujjars and Bakerwals that this decision will not dilute the rights of the communities which are already enjoying the ST status. “There will be no effect on the reservation of Gujjars and Bakewals even by one percent,” Shah had assured.
The Gujjars, who already have a reservation under the ST category, had apprehensions that granting the ST status to the Paharis would dilute their quota. |
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