 Early Times Report
Vijaypur, Oct 8: Expressing concerns over the plight of border dwellers, the former minister and JKPCC General Secretary Manjit Singh today appealed Government to construct a building in the safer places for the International Border residents.
"International Border face hostility after every two or three years and there is a need to construct a building for the border residents in the safer places so that people can be shifted there," said Manjit Singh while visiting border village Dag-Channi.
After interacting with the people, he said, the Government hurriedly asks them to shift to other places without making permanent solution to the problem being faced by the border residents.
"They don't think about their rehabilitation in the safer places. It is only border residents, who face trouble during hostility between India and Pakistan.
The Government should take a decision regarding construction of building for the border residents," he said.
"The townships like constructed for Kashmiri Pandits, should be provided to border residents," he added.
Demanding reservation to border residents in jobs and education sector, he said, Line of Control (LoC) residents are enjoying reservation but this right is not given to the International Border residents.
"IB people have been deprived of their basic right of getting reservation for their children in education, jobs or admissions in professional institutions," he said.
He said that both LoC and IB residents face same consequences yet there are two yard sticks to give them benefits. "One is given benefit of reservation, while another is ignored," he alleged. |
