JAMMU, Jan 21: Jammu and Kashmir Jamiat-e-Islami in its series of distributing relief to the needy Burma refugees on Tuesday distributed clothes and grains among the Rohingya Muslims (Burma Refugees) at Bathindi area here in Jammu.
Earlier, two similar camps were organised at Gujjar Nagar and Rajinder Bazar to rehabilitate the poor Burma refugees, who are facing the extreme miseries in the state with respect to shelter and other basic amenities. The relief items include Rice, two pair sets of clothes for all the burmees, which are around six thousand in number residing in different places of Jammu City.
Jamiat-e-Islami, political bureau head, Advocate Zahid, who had come to Jammu with the relief items said, "All the items were loaded in fourteen trucks with the 400 quintals of rice, clothes for all the Burma refugees and cash too has been distributed among the people suffering with ailments". With the distribution of the essential commodities, the refugees expressed themselves at cloud nine as no one has helped them in such way before. Despite the asylum seeker status given by the United Nations to these burmee refugees, no essential step has been taken by the Government of India and state government to rehabilitate them.
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