Excelsior Correspondent
VIJAYPUR, July 27: President J&K Jat Sabha and former Minister Manjit Singh has urged the Commission constituted by the Govt to declare Jat Community as Other Backward class.
Issuing a statement to the press, Manjit Singh expressed dismay over the negligence of the community for decades and hoped that the Commission constituted by the Govt with Justice (retired) GD Sharma as its Chairman will do justice with the Jat community.
“We expect the Commission will consider the demand and review the status of the Jat community for the social, political, educational and economic upliftment,” said Singh and reminded that he along with former Minister Choudhary Sukhnandan and former MLC Vikram Randhawa have also pleaded the case of Jat Community before to the Commission with regard to their demand.
” We have provided them the quarries. Earlier too, our people used to go to the Commission with the same demand, but this time we have high hopes that the OBC status would be granted to the Jat Community.
He said that it is a long-standing demand of the Community to include them in OBC so that they can be uplifted and give them a chance to live equally with other communities. He said that the Govt of India has special schemes and provisions for the downtrodden section of the society and Jat Community well deserves to be in the category of OBC so that they get special preference in jobs and education of their children.
He said that majority of the community people have settled in Kathua, Samba, Jammu and Rajouri along the International Border and LoC and Udhampur districts due to which they are backward educationally.
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