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| Employment package for Kashmiri Pandits grounded before taking off | | Community members also suffer on account of rehabilitation | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Apr 18: With the electioneering at its crescendo the state government has forgotten to implement a decision taken almost two years back in a cabinet meeting regarding providing job opportunities to Kashmiri Pandits who stayed put and did not leave the valley.
The non-implementation of this cabinet decision amply proves that state government has a habit of taking decisions and then forgetting about the implementation part of these decisions.
Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah while chairing a cabinet meeting in the far flung area of Gurez in Bandipora district in August 2012 took a decision about giving employment to the Kashmiri Pandit youth who stayed back in Kashmir valley.
However, around two years later no progress has since been achieved with the employment package yet to get a practical shape. The package was sanctioned on the lines of Prime Minister's package for migrant Kashmiri Pandits.
A group of Kashmiri Pandits while sharing their views with Early Times said that the problem of unemployment has assumed daunting proportions in the state and same holds true with the youth of Kashmiri Pandit community.
"In order to inculcate confidence the state cabinet in 2012 decided to give jobs to youth of our community, but as on date there has been no forward movement in this regard. The employment package seems to have fallen flat without taking off," said the Kashmiri Pandits.
The Kashmiri Pandits said that they have been neglected by state government. They added that both state and central governments should take immediate steps for providing relief to Pandits of Kashmir.
"Rehabilitation is the biggest problem faced by the Kashmiri Pandits here. There are 55 families of Kashmiri Pandits who are up against many odds since the past 23 years with no relief in sight. The Kashmiri Pandits were internally displaced and they had to leave their ancestral places and settle down at the district headquarters," said the Kashmiri Pandits.
The Kashmiri Pandits said that it was not a big deal to provide package to 50 odd families adding that state government has always turned a deaf ear to their genuine problems. They said that state government had in principle agreed to provide rehabilitation to the Kashmiri Pandits.
"The package would have been sanctioned after receiving the feedback from police about the families claiming for the package. It took years for the various levels of police hierarchy to get the antecedents of the Kashmiri Pandits and the observations were forwarded to Revenue department for further action," said Kashmiri Pandits.
The Kashmiri Pandits said that files are pending for the last five years in the Revenue department and as such the rehabilitation package could not be sanctioned so far. They alleged that no follow up of the progress in this case has been taken up so far. The Kashmiri Pandits said that they are forced to pay heavy rent for minimal accommodation at various places in Srinagar.
"Although the state government constructed 18 residential quarters for some of our families at Mattan in South Kashmir's Anantnag district but these were handed over to the migrant Kashmiri Pandit youth appointed under the Prime Minister's package. The discrimination needs to be stopped so that the Kashmiri Pandits staying back live a dignified life," said Kashmiri Pandits. |
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