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Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 25- To protest against the discriminatory functioning of the different channels of Doordarshan, the Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir have issued a nationwide appeal to people of this ethnic group to boycott the all the channels of Doordarshan, India's national broadcaster, as the DD has miserably failed to give proper representation to Gojri-the Language of tribal Gujjars in J&K. They have also urged them to stage protest against the cultural aggression being inflected by the channel.
The community alleged that the Kashir channel, DDK Srinagar and DDK Jammu, for which the centre allocates more than Rs 400 crore annually, does not telecast even a single programme of five minutes on daily basses in Gojri language in its 24 X 7 telecast adding that All DD Kenderas in Jammu does not cover the reports from remote villages and tribal population of the state in their own mother tongue.
In an appeal to Gujjars of all Indian States, Dr Javaid Rahi, National Secretary of Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation a National Organization working for the preservation and propagations of Tribal Culture in India, he asked the community to boycott viewing all DD Channels. Condemning the cultural invasion unleashed on Gujjars by the DDK Srinagar, Jammu and Kashir Channel, he alleged that electronic media in Jammu and Kashmir is in no way the representative channel of all communities and tribes of J&K State.
He stated all the DD Channel in J&K including the Kashir channel has not only failed in meeting the aspirations and expectations of the people of Jammu region as well as the tribals residing in boarder belts of Kashmir valley, it has also failed in its much publicized aim of countering the false and malicious propaganda of the channels from across the International borders
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