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New Delhi, June 17 : More than a year after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made the announcement, the Home Ministry has decided to set up a committee to look into the rehabilitation of women and children hit by militant violence in Jammu and Kashmir, including families of terrorists killed by security forces.
This was decided by Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta during a meeting this week where he said the Jammu and Kashmir Government should nominate two officials who would be working with Ministry Of Home Affairs in identifying the widows and orphans.
The Committee would go into the records of the killings of militants and provide relief to the families, official sources said.
The move has been taken after State Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad stressed that those families also needed to be looked after whose bread earner had joined the militant ranks and was killed in police action.
The Prime Minister during his concluding remarks at the last year's round table conference in Srinagar had said the Government must immediately provide relief to those affected by terrorist activities and the state response to that.
"...It is important that in our effort at nation building, we win back as our own the destitute families of those terrorists who have been killed in police action," the Prime Minister had said in may last year while directing the Union Home Ministry and the State Government to work out a credible mechanism of support for these families.
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