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| Permanent Homeland for KPs nearer to reality, MHA begins process | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 14: Union Home Ministry has started work on the establishment of a 'permanent homeland' for Kashmir Pandits in Kashmir valley.
According to highly placed sources, Home Ministry after having written a letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to identify land near the native place from where the Kashmiri Pandits migrated, the Ministry is planning to initiate process of consultation with various shades of Kashmiri Pandit leadership about the proposed move. They added that the process of consultation would begin immediately after the Assembly elections are over.
Sources said that consultation is aimed at developing consensus over the proposed move of Central Government since there are Kashmiri Pandit leaders who are against carving out a specific area in Kashmir valley for rehabilitation. There are voices among the Kashmiri Pandits who have been vociferously saying that Kashmiri Pandits should be re-settled back in the areas from where they had migrated originally during the 1990's.
Consultation would include taking the State Government whichever will be in power on board and ensuring that homeland proposal is implemented with its active cooperation, said the sources. They stressed that Home Ministry is unlikely to invite separatists for the consultations over the proposed homeland for Kashmiri Pandits. They further said that the Home Ministry has already asked the State Government to identify land where there is adequate security in and around the area.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh had in the letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah asked him to identify land in one or two months for the rehabilitation of displaced Kashmiri Pandits, who migrated from the Kashmir valley in the early 1990s due to militancy. They had asked the J&K Government to start the process of identifying the land for their rehabilitation after the floods.
It needs to be mentioned here that Narendra Modi Government has committed itself to the return of some 62,000 Kashmiri Pandit families with "full dignity" to their homes in the Valley and has earmarked Rs. 500 crore for this in the 2014-15 Union budget. It needs to be further reiterated here that Kashmiri Pandits have been demanding establishment of a homeland for displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir valley comprising of regions of Valley to the east and north of river Jhelum.
They have been saying that the Constitution of India be made applicable in letter and spirit in this homeland in order to ensure right to life, liberty, freedom of expression and faith, equality and rule of law. They have been further saying that the homeland be placed under central administration with a Union Territory status and that all the seven hundred thousand Kashmiri Hindus, including those who have been driven out of Kashmir in the past and yearn to return to their homeland and those who were forced to leave on account of terrorist violence in Kashmir, be settled in the homeland on an equitable basis with dignity and honor. |
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