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| Gujjars for special census of nomads, houseless tribals | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, May 16: Stressing upon centre and state governments to jointly launch an exclusive programme to conduct a special census of lakhs of nomadic and shelter-less Gujjars and Bakerwals in the State, Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation today expressed fear over their exclusion in the process.
In a letter addressed to Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh sent through the Foundation-a frontal body of Gujjars of state, the community members demanded a correct enumeration of their tribe under "Shelter less category" in the course house listing commenced from yesterday. Giving details about the letter, Javaid Rahi, secretary of the foundation said, "We demanded a special census of around 6 to 8 lakh nomadic and shelter-less Gujjars and Bakerwals who are presently under migration through seven major routs towards upper reaches of Pir Panchal, Shavalik and Trikuta Hills of Himalaya." He said that Registrar General of India (RGI) should hold exclusive mapping to list the movement of nomads in Himalayan region of J&K and provide a new column in registration forms of census by introducing "Nomadic Category" or "Shelter less category" which would help the enumerators to accommodate a big chunk of tribal population during the process, who are otherwise feared to be left out of the census 2011. Rahi asked community member who are settled or belonging to agriculture class to co-operate with census officials and get themselves enumerated as ST community with Gojri as their mother tongue.
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