Recommends inclusion of
Bauria, Jogi as backward communities
Jammu, Aug 13: State
Backward Commission held its meeting today, the Aug. 13, 2018 in its
office under the Chairmanship of its Chairman Jeet Lal Gupta. Prof. Virender
Gupta and Adv. Onkar Seth also attended the meeting as its members. The
Commission received representations from the people residing along the
International Border of J&K State demanding that they should provided the
benefits those are being availed by the families living along the LoC/LAC.
Among others who represented the case of people residing along IB and met the
Commission were MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, MLAs Dr. Krishan Lal, Kuldeep Kumar,
Sham Choudhary, Sukhnandan Kumar, Ex-MLA Ashwani Sharma, Ex-VC Rashpal Verma,
Adv. Parimoksh Seth and Ajay Sharma.
It was stated in the
representations that the International Border remains frequently disturbed
because of cross border firing. They have to vacate their houses and are
compelled to take shelter in the safer places, suffer heavy causalities, their
houses are damaged, they find difficulty to cultivate their lands and studies
of their children gets hampered because of the frequent displacement of
families. It was also stated that the people living along IB are put to
miserable financial and social conditions.
The Chairman assured that
Commission would take cognizance of their issue and make positive
recommendations to the government about their demands shortly.
The Commission recommended
the case of Yogi/Jogi/Nath and Bouria/Boria/Bowaria Communities for their
inclusion in the OBC category in view of their social, educational and economic
backwardness, the recommendation of the commission are shortly to be submitted
to the state government.
The Jogi/Yogi/Nath
community was declared as one of the backward classes by the Mandal Commission
and they have population of 40,000 to 50,000 in the state. The people of
Boria/Bouria/Bowaria community are working as manual labourer in the
vegetable/fruits mandies of the state and put up in extremely poor and hygienic
conditions. Both these communities were struggling for their inclusion in the
Backward classes since 1996, but due to insensitive attitude and slackness on
the part of the authorities, their grievances were not addressed. However, the
present state backward commission while looking on the concerned files and
documents submitted by these communities realized the genuine of their demand
and as such recommended their case for inclusion in the backward classes.
Rashpal Verma also put up the case of OBCs before the commission and
made request for enhancement in their quota for reservation in the government
jobs and professional education institution as their population as
projected by Govt. of India with the feedback from state government
authorities, is about 11%.
