Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 18: Members of the Special Executive Committee meeting of J&K Ex-Services League assembled today under its president, Maj Gen (retd) Goverdhan Singh Jamwal to welcome the abrogation of 370 and 35 -A with some reservations about bifurcation of the State. They felt that the Dogra State of Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, Tibet, Ha created by their ancestors has been bifurcated into two Union Territories. After having suffered for 72 years they are hoping that the Union Territory arrangements will be soon converted into statehood, but in the meantime the soldiers and the veterans who have been discriminated for all these years be compensated at par with the Union Territories of the country for which the League has prepared a Memorandum of Demands to be submitted to the Governor on October 31.
Broadly the memorandum included various issues of Ex-Servicemen of the State who were discriminated against their counterparts in rest of the country.
The League Vichar Manch has also deliberated on certain issues particularly those which have been pending for over 20 years and deliberately denied to the soldiers and the Ex-Servicemen like:
Allotment of land for the housing colonies including Sainik Colony in Srinagar, reservation and annuity at par with the neighbouring States , recruitment of Ex-Serviceman in Police and revival of Ex-Servicemen Sainik Vanaspati Cooperative pending over 15 years.
All these points are being discussed in the last Annual General Meeting of the present State of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh on September 22 at 10:45 hours.
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