Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 23: Jammu and Kashmir Batwal Welfare Association (JKBWA) today demanded the State as well Union Government to grant an employment package for Batwal youth based on its Ethnographic Study undertaken in 1994 by the Planning Commission of India.
The issue was raised during a meeting of JKBWA held today at Village Kalyanpur under the chairmanship of Capt Kamal Chand Motan. The meeting was attended by a large number of educated youth of the community.
The meeting discussed the memorandum which the State Governor NN Vohra had forwarded to Chief Minister and also, the problems being faced by the said youth who mentioned to the Association members that despite being highly educated they are hankering for job which is being denied to them by the recruiting agencies.
They said without job they cannot come out of poverty they have been living in, and lead a dignified life like that of evolved product of the society.
The association appealed the Central as well as State Government that Batwal community be granted an ‘Employment Package’ based on its Ethnographic Study undertaken in 1994 by the Planning Commission of India. The Association members said that only employment to community youth can enhance their economic position and bring them prosperity.
The Association also appealed the recruiting agencies of Belt Forces to lower down their eligibility criteria to enlist their community youth in belt forces keeping in view their pitiable conditions.
Besides, the association members urged the State Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to seek status report with regard to their memorandum from the Social Welfare Department, to which her office had sent the said memorandum last year for examining the same.
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