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| Much to surprise of majority, more than 20,000 KP families living as migrants outside J&K | | Delhi being most populous with 19,338 families | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Nov 9: At a time when there is notion that not many Kashmiri Pandit families live outside the state following the migration of community members from Kashmir valley in 1990; figures point out that more than 20,000 Kashmiri Pandit families are living as migrants in rest of the states.
Documentary proof available with Early Times says that 21,333 Kashmiri Pandit families live in the other parts from Delhi to Tamil Nadu. Interestingly none of Muslim or Sikh families are living as migrants in the other parts of country although hundreds of families of these two communities are living as migrants in Jammu, winter capital of the state.
The documents provided by the Revenue department say that 19,338 Kashmiri Pandit families are settled as migrants in Delhi. In Haryana, the number of Kashmiri Pandit families putting up as migrants are 924. Three hundred and nineteen (319) Kashmiri Pandit families are living as migrants in the Punjab state of North India.
In Uttar Pradesh, 222 Kashmiri Pandit families are living as migrants while as in Maharashtra in West India, 208 families of Kashmiri Pandits are putting up as migrants. One hundred and fourteen (114) Kashmiri Pandit families are living as migrants in the Union territory of Chandigarh in North India.
In Uttaranchal, 57 families of Kashmiri Pandits are living as migrants while as in Central Indian state of Rajasthan, 48 families of Kashmiri Pandits are putting up as migrants. Forty three (43) families of Kashmiri Pandits are living as migrants while as in the South Indian state of Karnataka, 38 families of Kashmiri Pandits are putting up as migrants.
In the North Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, 11 families of Kashmiri Pandits are living as migrants while as in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu just a single Kashmiri Pandit family is living as a migrant family.
The documents say that 40,497 Kashmiri Pandit families are registered as migrants at the office of Relief Commissioner (Migrants) in Jammu. Out of this 18,292 families are entitled to relief since they are registered under the relief category. More than 50 percent that is 22,205 families are not entitled to relief since they are registered under the non-relief category at the office of Relief Commissioner (Migrants).
The documents say that 1054 families have migrated in the Jammu division and they too have been registered as migrants under the title Jammu migrants. Out of this, 486 families have migrated in the Reasi district while as 225 families have migrated from the Ramban district. One hundred seventy two (172) families have migrated from Rajouri district while as 168 families migrated from Doda/Kishtwar districts. Three families have migrated from Poonch district to Jammu.
The documents say that out of 40,497 families putting up as migrants in Jammu, 2167 families are of the Muslim community. One thousand seven hundred sixty seven (1767) families of Sikh community are putting up as migrants at Jammu at present while as five families of other communities are also living as migrants at Jammu as on date. |
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