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| HC directs Govt to consider flats for KPs in Budgam | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 5: Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed government to examine case of 13 Kashmiri Pandits, who had filed petition for allotment of full-fledged residential quarters at Sheihkhpora in central Kashmir's Budgam district under Prime Minister's package for their rehabilitation.
Disposing of a writ petition filed by the Kashmiri migrants, a single bench of the High Court comprising Justice Bansi Lal Bhat directed the government to examine and consider the case of the petitioners keeping in view the Prime Minister's Package read with the policy formulated by the State Government for return and rehabilitation of Migrants. The respondents in the case include Revenue Secretary, Commissioner Relief and Rehabilitation Migrant Jammu, Deputy Commissioner Relief Organization Migrant Srinagar and Tehsildar incharge transit Sheikhpora Budgam.
Justice B L Bhat also directed the respondents to make a decision within one month in the light of the averments made in the petition as well observations made by it. The petitioners stated that they were migrants who had left their homes during the turmoil period in the Valley.
They stated that the Government of India under Prime Minister's Package has forwarded a recommendation for confidence building measures in the state, whereby the migrants were given packages for housing purposes and also the petitioners were appointed in various departments of the State under the Jammu and Kashmir Kashmiri Migrants (Special Drive) Recruitment Rules 2009, that too after executing an agreement with the Government that they shall serve in the Kashmir Valley against the posts they were appointed.
The petitioners said that they and their families were persuaded to return to valley and were allotted accommodation on sharing basis at Sheikhpora, Migrant Colony, Budgam.
They said that in view of the policy laid down by the state of Jammu and Kashmir for return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Migrants, they are also entitled to be considered for full-fledged allotment of a single quarter/set.
"It is also averred that the respondents have decided to allocate single residential quarter at Sheikhpora, Migrant Colony, Budgam in favour of the employees engaged under Prime Minister's Package and are going to allocate a full-fledged set to families whose wards are reading from UKG onwards and are regular students of various private or Government Institutions," the court observed.
The order was challenged by the petitioners by the medium of the writ petition, and it is submitted that there is no qualified provision enunciating that the eligibility for the allotment of the quarter shall be on the ground that the ward of the family member should be reading in UKG onwards or regular student of any Government / private institutions. |
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