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Jammu,July 15
Prime
Minister,Manmohan Singh,on Sunday sympathised with the
tribulations displaced families from the Kashmir
valley have been undergoing since 1990,when militancy
related violence in the area took roots.
Laying the foundation stone of a Rs.700 crore
satellite town project at Nagrota,10 kms east of
Jammu,Manmohan Singh said "I understand the
difficulties being faced by the displaced community of
Kashmiri Pandits(Hindus).Though late I am committed to
provide suitable rehabilitation for them."
Prime Minister said "the Government is aware of their
problems.It will try to provide them with better
living conditions in Jammu."He said "we will make
their stay in the two-room flats comfortable till the
atmosphere became conducive for their return to their
ancestral places in Kashmir."
The project for which he laid the foundation
envisages construction of 4200 flats.Besides this 1000
two-room flats were under construction at Muthi and
Purkhoo migrant camps on the outskirts of Jammu
city.Both these proects have been taken in hand under
the Prime Minister's reconstruction programme. Since
1991 the Kashmiri Hindus have been living in one-room
tenements.
About 3.50 lakh Pandits(Hindus),including women and
children,had fled the Kashmir valley in mid january
1990 when the area was rocked by gun and grenade
attacks by the moslem insurgents campaigning for
either incorporation of the Indian administered state
with Pakistan or independence.More than 40,000 lives
of civilians,including 400 Hindus were lost during the
last 17 years.
With the enforcement of ceasefire on the LOC and the
start of peace process and India-Pakistan dialogue in
2003 the level of militancy related violence,according
to the police,has gone down.
And during the last four years the provincial
Government,with the financial support from the
Government of India,has initiated a plan under which
two-room tenements were being built at three
places,Sheikhpora inBudgam district of
Kashmir,Khirbhawani,a religious townlet for Hindus and
at Mattan(both in the valley).The idea behind this
project was to rehabilitate Kashmiri Hindus in these
clusters where adequate security cover would be
provided.
However,various Pandit organisations,including Panun
Kashmir,have opposed the Government plan on the plea
that it would not be safe for the Pandits to stay in
these separate clusters.
Dr Ajay Chrungoo Chairman Panun Kashmir said
"shifting displaced families from Jammu to the three
clusters in Kashmir will be moving to a concentration
camp.Our freedom of movement will be restricted."He
and others have demanded creation of a separate
homeland for the Pandits within the valley.This demand
has been rejected both by the provincial Government
and Delhi.
Earlier Prime Minister landed in Jammu technical
airport,amid overcast sky,at 10.40 in the
morning.Governor,S.K.Sinha,Chief Minister,Ghulam Nabi
Azad,his mnisterial colleagues,senior functionaries of
Army,Airforce and police welcome him.earing a smile on
his face he shook hands with the VIPs at the airport
and later flew in a chopper to Nagrotafrom there he
again flew by the helicopter to the Jammu university.
After the unviersity function,where he received the
degree of doctorate of literature,he went to the Raj
Bhawan where he interacted with the Governor,Chief
Minister,Ministers,legislators and other top brass
from the Army police during the lunch.Then afterwards
he returned to Delhi
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