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| Panun Kashmir seeks Rs.28, 000 crore rehabilitation package | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb18
With growing fear of further isolation and neglect Kashmiri displaced people have demand a suitable rehabilitation package for the community sould living in distress in various parts of the country.
Panun Kashmir, headed by Dr Agnishekhar, has demanded a Rs.28000 crore comprehensive rehabilitation package till the displaced people were able to return to their homeland in Kashmir.
Dr Agnishekhar told newsmen in Jammu on Monday that the amount of Rs.28000 crores has been worked out by an expert committee of Panun Kashmir.He explained that if the Government earmarked Rs.28000 crores it would mean provide Rs.50 lakhs to each Kashmiri Pandit family that migrated from the valley in 1990 and onwards.He said this package was being demanded on account of losses suffered by several lakh pandits who fled the valley during the rise of militancy.
Dr Agnishekhar said that all the Pandit families had suffered heavy losses to their residential houses,shops,business establishments,orchards and other movable assets duri ng the last 18 years.The migrants also suffered losses on account of loss of income from these orchards.agricultural lands.
He said during the last 18 years educated youth belonging to the displaced families had been totally neglected with the result not many were able to find jobs in the Government departments.He said while on one hand the Government had started regularizing the services of those who had been appointed on adhoc basis on the posts which fell vacant because of migration,on the other no step had been taken during all these years to rehabilitate unemployed educated Pandit boys and girls.
Panun Kashmir demanded emplopyment package for 15000 educated youths belonging to the displaced community.It also expressed concern over the continued stepmotherly treatment being meted out to the migrants by denying the displaced employees HRA,CCA and COLA.Even the benefits from SRO-43 were being denied to the Pandits as hardly any youth had been appointed in Government departments on compassionate grounds.
Dr Agnishekhar expressed amazement over the way the Government bothered much about the return and rehabilitation of 5,000 militants who had gone across the LOC for arms training but paid no heed to the rehabilitation and return of the displaced Pandit community to the valley.He wanted the Government to take immediate steps for introducing and adopting Kashmiri Pandit temple bill in the state legislature so that there were constitutional gurantees against desecration and demolition of pandit shrines and temples.He also demanded setting up a minority commission in Jammu and Kashmir so that Kashmiri Pandits were declared a minority and internally displaced status for the migrants.
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