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Jammu, June 17: The high level central-state committee to chalk out a plan for rehabilitation of the victims of terrorist violence and also the families of terrorists killed by security forces is likely to take shape by this month end.
A decision to this effect was taken after the recent Srinagar visit of Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta. The committee thus formed will have members of the Union Home Ministry and two members nominated by the Jammu and Kashmir Government, reports said.
During the second round table conference held in Srinagar in May last year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had announced measures for rehabilitation of the victims of terrorism.
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 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.
The Government has also initiated a number of schemes for rehabilitation of orphans of those who were victims of terrorism.
This committee would ensure that such schemes are extended to all orphans as this will help them in building for themselves a life free from violence and perceived revenge, as upright citizens of the country, senior officials of the ministry said.
The Union Home Ministry also discussed in detail the return of Kashmiri pandits to the valley and it was suggested that the issue was inter-linked with employment, the sources said.
They said the state government, while making appointments of the community members any where in the valley, would take an undertaking that the candidate would join the duty in the valley and function at the post and in return the state government would ensure complete security for them.
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