Jammu & Kashmir government came up with 4% reservation for Pahari Speaking People in direct recruitment and admissions in professional colleges while notifying amendments in Jammu and Kashmir Recruitment Rules 2005. The 20 April 2020 no­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­vides 4 per cent jobs for the Pa­hari Speak­ing peo­ple in the Union Ter­ri­tory job quota, in the quo­tas for eco­nom­i­cally weaker sec­tions, ex-ser­vice­men and Phys­i­cally chal­lenged per­sons, reser­va­tions in Pro­fes­sional in­sti­tu­tions and reser­va­tions in post-grad­u­ate courses. In 2010 a cir­cu­lar was is­sued by State Ad­vi­sory Board for De­vel­op­ment of Pa­hari Speak­ing Peo­ple Jammu and Kash­mir in which it was clearly men­tioned that Sikhs of Kash­mir and Sikhs liv­ing in Ra­jouri and Poonch be­long to Pa­hari Speak­ing Com­mu­nity of the Jammu and Kash­mir State. 

The J & K gov­ern­ment of the Union Ter­ri­tory of Kash­mir must con­sti­tute a com­mit­tee to look into the whole range of is­sues re­lat­ing to the Pa­hari lan­guage and the peo­ple who ad­here to it. Pa­hari is spo­ken by Mus­lims, Sikhs, in Jammu and Kash­mir and it is grossly un­fair to leave out any sec­tion. Sikh Kash­miris love their home and hearth. They love the Kash­mir val­ley, its peo­ples, its flora and fauna, the scenic beauty of the heaven on earth and their bond­ing with every­thing Kash­miri -peo­ple, food, cloth­ing, tra­di­tions and cus­toms, strug­gles and con­flicts. Will the gov­ern­ment of Jammu and Kashmir con­tinue its cam­paign to de­stroy this age-old re­la­tion­ship?