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| Government adopting 'Nelson's Eye' approach on KPs' issues: JTC | | For exiled community 'rehabilitation' still eludes after over two decades | | SK Kaw
Jammu, Oct 19: Alleging State Government for adopting a 'Nelson's Eye' attitude towards the plights of exiled Kashmiri Pandits who have been languishing in migrant camps in Jammu and other parts of country since 1990, Jagti Tenement Committee (JTC) an organization of KPs today asserted that for the last 23 years of migration the community have been deprived of even basic amenities while as the permanent rehabilitation is still looming large.
While coming in contact with a number of KP migrants across Jammu, Early Times learnt that State Government may not have been able to show enough sincerity in mitigating the main problems of KPs. Majority of educated unemployed youth from exiled community alleged that much hyped Prime Minister's employment package scheme was not properly implemented and remaining three thousand posts in various departments had not been created so far thus making it a futile attempt to apply balm on the wounds of exiled community. Many of unemployed educated youth are getting over aged and are facing frustration of unemployment and economic constraints. But nobody in the administration seems to be interested to take up their issue at the relevant foras.
Making scathing attack on Government for its failure to provide adequate cash assistance to relief holder migrants who were getting presently a meagre amount of Rs. 1650/- per month per soul besides a few kgs of rice and wheat. Relief holders alleged that Ministers and Legislators have managed to increase their salaries and other emoluments manifold in last over a decade and Government employees getting increased salaries by revision on their pay scales through pay commissions and migrant community is left high and dry. Advocating that their demand of hike in relief is genuine, members of migrant community questioned the Government if prices of essential commodities have not gone sky high for them?
"Keeping in view the price hike, Government must enhance our cash assistance to Rs. 5000/- per soul per month at least, so that we too could be able to make our both ends meet smoothly," said Mohan Lal an elderly Kashmiri Pandit migrant.
Coming down heavily on the tall claims of State Government JTC president Shadi Lal Pandita said, "The Government is turning blind eye on the just and genuine issues of Kashmiri Migrants. How long will be we languishing here and there. Government should rehabilitate us permanently in Valley by creating satellite township in Anantnag, Srinagar and Baramulla districts besides a compensation of Rs 50 lakh to each migrant family," maintained Pandita.
So for as the basic amenities are concerned, the Jagti Camp a dream project of hundreds of crores rupees of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but it turned out to be sandy clusters with technical snags and developed cracks in ceilings and inner and outer walls and leakages from roofs. Even in the name of health sector a 40-bedded hospital structure is standing in the camp but its construction never reached to its completion while a dispensary which itself sans staff, testing equipments and medicine is just there to save skin of concerned authorities. A patient Sham Rani coming out of the dispensary lamented 'They do not have even a tablet of 'Paracetamol' available in this dispensary." There are two ambulances in the premises of the dispensary but both of these are defunct. "If any exigency emerges there how will be one able to reach Jammu alongwith patient," questioned another migrant woman Sheela Devi. |
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