Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, June 5: Pahari Tribe ST Forum held one day convention of Pahari Tribe employees here , today. Delegates expressed joy over the interim report of Backward Commission headed by Retd. Justice GD Sharma.
Interacting during the proceedings the members of the ethnicity in one voice raised concern of their down trodden condition and appealed GOI to furnish their due long pending demand of ST status at earliest.
The speakers also pointed this time the Central Government is having complete majority and a PM with firm conviction can address this genuine demand of much deprived Tribe. From time to time different committees declared Pahari as the downtrodden ethnicity. Earlier also in the year 2013 when GOI appointed a Socio Ethnic Committee headed by Dr. Peerzada Mohammad Ameen, the Committee in its final report submitted that Pahari Ethnicity deserves ST status from all parameters defined in the Constitution of India, they added.
Further they said that since 1989 every Government befooled Pahari Tribe and for mere political gains again and again assured with false promises but now general public of the Tribe has full faith that this Government must address the issue. They recalled all CMs , Governors and even past PMs recommended and assured the ST status to the much deprived ethnicity but unfortunately the promise was not fulfilled till yet.
Former MLC Vibodh Gupta remained as the chief guest, former VC Pahari Advisory Board acted as the special guest while Nagesh Sharma presided over the function.
Proceedings of the programme were conducted by Hameed Malik while Vikrant Sharma and Nikhil Gupta addressed the overview of the convention and other activities of PT ST Forum.
Those prominent persons who spoke on the occasion included
Ahsan Mirza, Arif Jatt, Sajjad Mirza, Gurdev Thakur, Vishal Pahari, Munir Mirza, Ayoub Pahalwan, Aftab Tantray, Ahmed Khan, Subash Chander, Manzoor Khan, Karamat Malik, Naresh Sharma, Surinder Pal, Tariq Pardesi, Akhter Bukhari, Shabaz Khan Poonchi, Javed Malik, Shabir Khan, Jamit Raj, Anwar Shah, Javaid Khan, Mohd Fazeel, Sobhay Singh, Bansi Lal, Iftikhar Mirza, Manzoor Dar, Dev Raj, Om Parkash, Aslam Malik, Darshan Lal and Joginder Singh.
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