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| Domicile certificates for WP refugees | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 5
The Jammu and Kashmir government has taken an initiative to solve the six-decade-old multi-dimensional refugee problem which has its origin in the partition of the State in 1947.
In a policy decision, the State government has decided to give West Pakistan refugees domicile certificate thus enabling them to seek employment though they would not get a Permanent Resident Certificate.
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the government was ready to give all other facilities to West Pakistan refugees within the purview of State government. He admitted that consensus eluded an all-party meeting, called by him last year, on granting State subject rights to refugees.
According to official figures, 5,764 families migrated from the neighbouring Sialkot district as communal riots rocked the Punjab belt in 1947. |
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