Srinagar, July 23 (KNS): Senior vice-president of Jammu and Kashmir Awami National Conference (JKANC) Muzaffar Ahmad Shah while reacting to the recent amendment in Domicile law said that they just want Kashmir to be the same as was on August 4, 2019.

While talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), Shah said that anyone from outside, who has lived in Kashmir for the last fifteen years, can claim for Domicile which the people of Kashmir will never accept. 

“The government is saying that the child who has been studying here for the last 7 years can also get a job in Kashmir, which will have a profound effect on the employment of our local youth.”

He also said that the recent amendment in Domicile law will directly change the demography of Kashmir in the next few years. 

Earlier, on Wednesday the J&K administration rolled out the process to issue domicile certificates to the spouses of women, who are married outside of Jammu and Kashmir.

An order was issued in this regard reads, “In exercise of the powers conferred by the provison to Article 309 of the Constitution of India read with Section of the J&K Civil Service (Decentralisation and recruitment) Act, 2010, the government hereby grants domicile certificates to the spouse of a domicile.”

Prior to August 5, 2019, when the Centre stripper J&K of its special constitutional position, husbands of local women married outside of J&K had no right to buy the property or apply for jobs in J&K, while now with the amendment in the J&K Domicile act, they will have all the rights now.

The government has authorised tehsildars to issue such certificates against a valid proof of marriage and a domicile certificate of spouse, while the deputy commissioner will be the appellate authority for the same.

As per the ‘J&K Grant of Domicile Certificate Procedure Rules 2020’, domicile certificates will be issued to all Permanent Resident Certificate holders and their children living outside the Union Territory. (KNS)