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| Domicile certificates bring smiles on faces of WPRs | | Hope to get central grants, kept unspent by erstwhile dispensation | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 27: West Pakistan Refugees getting domicile certificates has brought smiles on their faces and they are hoping that the central grants which were approved in their favour earlier will now be utilized to the fullest.
Now, West Pakistan Refugees (WPRs), Safai Karamcharis and children of women married outside Jammu and Kashmir, who were earlier deprived of J&K’s citizenship, are also eligible for domicile certificates. West Pakistani Refugees were part of the Parliamentary electoral roll but they didn’t find a place in the electoral rolls of the erstwhile J&K State. After J&K’s reorganization, they are now covered under the 15-year residency rule and their children under the 7-year/ class 10/12 rule.
Now, the question remains after the domicile certificates have been issued in their favour, will they also get the central grants which were sanctioned in their favour?
“Recently, under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Girish Chandra Murmu, a detailed discussion was held on relief and rehabilitation benefits extended to Kashmiri migrants, persons displaced in 1947, 1965 and 1971 and refugees from West Pakistan,” official sources said.
They said there were questions raised over why the successive regimes in the erstwhile State failed to utilize the funds which were earlier approved by the Central Government for the upliftment of these refugees.
The documents reveal that under the Prime Minister’s Special Package, Rs 2000 crore were sanctioned by the Government of India for the rehabilitation and one-time settlement of 36384 families from PoK.
As per the documents, out of these sanctioned Rs 2000 crore, not even a single rupee was spent by the erstwhile State regime- exposing the step- motherly treatment met out to these ill-fated people.
These PoK based refugees were displaced from their houses and forced to take shelter in Jammu 70 years ago. “The three generations of people displaced from PoK faced poverty, discrimination and apathy and were forced to live in 39 filthy camps,” said an analyst.
It’s in place to mention here that thousands of refugees, who were forced to leave the areas of Kashmir occupied by Pakistan in 1947, were provided land in different parts of the Jammu region in 1960 but they did not get benefits of different government housing schemes or access to bank loans. |
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