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| ‘PM’s package would do no good to PoK refugees’ | | Kulwant demands relief package at par with Kashmiri migrants’ | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Apr 29
Reacting to the reported statement of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad that the PM’s package will benefit refugees and border people, Dr. Kulwant Singh Convenor Forum for Justice and Human Rights has ‘described is as incorrect and far from the reality’. The demand of the refugees from PoK is the compensation of the loss of life and properties suffered by them and what the government gave them after 60 years of trauma was just adhoc relief in the form of allotment of land to rural families and a small house of 7 marlas or a plot plus Rs.3500 to some of the urban families, he said and added that the package amounts to cruel joke with the refugees.
Dr Singh alleged that the discriminatory packages of relief announced by the Prime Minister have caused great resentment and disappointment to the refugees. He asked why a similar package could not be worked out for permanently displaced persons. Besides Kashmiri migrants, there are PoK refugees, refugees from Pakistan, large number of Gujjars and Bakerwals and other population of the state living below the poverty line, he said and asked why the Centre could not work out equity relief package for these people. ‘It reflects the lack of wisdom on the part of the state government’, he said and added ‘that this could be debacle for it during the forthcoming elections’. It is still time for the government to rectify its mistake, he maintained.
Appealing the government to work out solution to the problem of the people of the state based on ground realities and principles of equity and justice, Dr Singh has proposed an adhoc compensation of at least Rs.2 lakh to each refugee family on the basis of their present number which is 6 to 8 times compared to that of 1947, besides a relief package to the refugees at par with Kashmiri migrants. |
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