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| Census 2011: 5,000 Bakerwal families may have no record | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, May 29: Atleast five thousand families comprising nearly 20,000 Bakerwals of Rajouri district are out of the radar of Census officials due to their nomadic nature. These families belonging to Kalakote, Nowshera, Budhal and Darhal have already moved to pastures of Kashmir Valley and they are likely to return when the Census process might have closed.
Sources said that atleast five thousands families of nomads from alone this district have moved this year to Kashmir Valley and they might be not entered in the Census because government has still not made any arrangement to depute special officials on this duty to trace and enter these families in the Census.
Sources said that atleast 15,000 Bakerwals were also remained out of the Census record in 2001 and they had been shown less than the actual number residing 6 months in Rajouri and remaining in Kashmir valley.
Jammu & Kashmir Bakerwal Association, Mohammad Rafiq Bajar, general secretary has said that at least 18 thousand Bakerwals of Rajouri district were not entered in 2001 Census record.
"This is a routine matter of Census officials to ignore these nomads but this year, we have decided to enter all these families", he said Bajar said there is 34 lakh population of Gujjar and Bakerwals in the state but Census had shown only 11 lakh in 2001 which was an "open conspiracy" against them. He said that from alone Rajouri, 15000 Bakerwals were not entered in record in 2001. "This would be repeated in 2011 Census as we have 20,000 Bakerwals of Rajouri district, who had already moved towards Kashmir pastures for 6 months", he said terming the Census as "anti-Bakerwals".
Suggesting government to constitute a Special Census Squads for entering Bakerwals in the Census record, he said, "If this is not done, the population of Gujjars and Bakerwals recorded in this Census would be half of the total."
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