{"id":29337,"date":"2020-07-05T15:10:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T09:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29337"},"modified":"2020-07-05T15:10:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T09:40:54","slug":"6600-domicile-certificate-issued-in-kashmir-many-of-them-former-gorkha-soldiers-officers-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29337","title":{"rendered":"6,600 more to get domicile certificates issued in J-K, many of them former Gorkha Soldiers & Officers: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Delhi<\/strong>: In the past one week over 6,600 applicants \u2014 majority of them retired soldiers and officers from the Gorkha community \u2014 have got the document that allows them to buy property and apply for jobs in the Union Territory, The Times Of India (TOI) reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore than 5,900 certificates have already been issued,\u201d said Vijay Kumar Sharma, additional deputy commissioner (revenue), Jammu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Kashmir, about 700 certificates have been issued, many of them former Gorkha soldiers and officers, TOI added<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn my tehsil alone, there are nearly 2,500 from the Gorkha community who had served in the Indian Army and their families who got domicile (about 3,500 have applied). There are quite a few from the Valmiki community also,\u201d said Dr Rohit Sharma, tehsildar of Bahu in Jammu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Valmiki community members were brought to the state in 1957 from Punjab after local sanitation workers went on a strike. It was the protest mostly by four groups \u2014 Gorkha servicemen, Valmikis, West Pakistan refugees and women who had married outside J&K \u2014 that had been at the centre of the decision to expand domicile criteria in the Union Territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The domicile rules had been notified by the J&K administration on May 18, with a rider that issuing officers (tehsildars in this case) who did not provide certificates in 15 days would be penalised \u20b950,000\/=<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Non-locals who had lived in J&K for 15 years, their children, officers with central government and central institutions and anyone who has studied in J&K for seven years and appeared in the Class X or XII exams became eligible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

A domicile of Prem Bahadur, 68 years old Ex-Army officer who served in Gorkha Regiment between 1968 to 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The applications have kept coming in \u2014 at least 33,000 so far. \u201cWe get an average of 200 applications a day,\u201d an official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

TOI reported that things have slowed because of internet speed; it\u2019s stll 2G internet service in these parts. \u201cBut we are doing all we can. It is a time-bound procedure. We have notified rules to act against any tehsildar who delays offering domicile. We will not allow the wait to be prolonged any further,\u201d said Rohit Kansal, spokesperson of the J&K administration told TOI<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

With inputs from TOI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Delhi: In the past one week over 6,600 applicants \u2014 majority of them retired soldiers and officers from the Gorkha community \u2014 have got the document that allows them to buy property and apply for jobs in the Union Territory, The Times Of India (TOI) reported. \u201cMore than 5,900 certificates have already been issued,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}