Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 27: Demanding adequate compensation for nomadic Gujjars whose animals got perished during recent shelling on Indo- Pak border, the community today stressed upon the State Government to shift nomads along with their animals to safer areas.
The community made this appeal through Tribal Research & Cultural Foundation after conclusion of tour of the team which visited various areas near border and met nomads who faced loss of their animals during exchange of shelling and firing in different border areas.
On conclusion of tour, in a community meeting held under the chairmanship of noted Gujjar Scholar Dr Javaid Rahi, the participants demanded that district administrations should provide justified help and devise a long term plan of relocation of border tribes instead of advising them to evacuate their native villages on day to day basis in view of cross border firing.
Dr Javaid Rahi said a few day before the community had appealed the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, State Governor N N Vohra and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to give directives to local authorities to provide shelter, food and other facilities to the Gujjars and to arrange fodder for their livestock and formulate a comprehensive plan to relocate the tribal communities living on borders.
During last one year, around 10 members of the tribal community have been killed and hundreds others injured in the shelling and firing along the LoC and IB in Jammu and Poonch districts, triggering migration of about 16000 people from the border hamlets,” the speaker said.
Those who spoke on the occasion included Dr S S Chouhan, Wariz Mohammad Banya, Shabnum Rafeeq Bajran, Ali Hussain Khatana, Bashir Bajad, Haneef lodha and others.
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