*Seek exclusion of community from OBC list
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 6: All J&K Saini Sabha and All J&K Kshatriya Yuva Saini Sabha (KYSS) today met members of GD Sharma Commission and apprised them about the gross injustice being meted out to them with the inclusion of Saini community in the list of backward classes.
The delegation of led by its president Pritam Singh Saini and Suksham Singh today met GD Sharma, Munir Khan and Roop Lal Bharti members of the GD Sharma Commission and held discussion over the issue of OBC status.
Saini apprised the Commission members that there is gross resentment among the community youth with regard to OBC status granted by the Government. He said that Saini community is a prosperous and economically strong community with high literacy rate, that too above national average literacy rate. Majority population of the community is already serving in government sector, private sector and armed forces at respectable positions, thereby contradicting the belief that Saini’s are economically, educationally and socially backward, he added.
“Our economically poorer people are already availing the benefits of EWS reservation, and granting them OSC status will deprive them of EWS benefits. Our community never asked for any kind of reservation,” he said, adding that Saini community doesn’t fall under any of the criteria set by the Mandal Commission Report.
Pritam Saini said that there are certain elements in the community who misguided the government and the Commission members to fulfil their ulterior motives.
The delegation members appealed to the Commission members to go through the fact and figures of the community data and roll the back the decision of OBC status in the general interest of the community. The Commission Members gave a patient hearing to the delegations’ members and assured for consideration of their demand after going through the facts.
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