Ishtiyaq Ahmad
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Jan 18: The Jammu and Kashmir Union territory government begins the process in North Kashmir for setting up transit accommodations for Kashmiri migrant employees.
The government has already said that at six locations in the Valley, under prime minister’s development package transit camps will be constructed for KPd.
These transit camps will be constructed in Marhama-Bijbehara in Anantnag district, Wandhama-Lar in Ganderbal district, Fatehpora in Baramulla district, Allowpora-Keegam in Shopian district, Odina-Su mbal in Bandipora district and Khullangam Bagh in Kupwara district.
The government on Monday constituted a committee for conducting the auction of 13 structures for “facilitating” the construction of transit accommodation for Kashmiri Migrant Employees at Fatehpora (I&FC Colony) in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. The committee is head by Additional District Development Commissioner, Baramulla and its members include Superintending Engineer (R&B) Circle Baramulla- Kupwara, Chief Accounts Officer in Office of Relief & Rehabilitation Commissioner, J&K-Jammu, Executive Engineer (R&B) Division Baramulla, Divisional Forest Officer, Social Forestry, Baramulla, District Mineral Officer, Baramulla and Assistant Accounts Officer (R&B) Division Baramulla. A total of 1,680 units would be constructed to accommodate the migrant employees. The highest of these – at 480 – would come up in Bandipora, followed by 336 in Baramulla, 288 in Kupwara and 192 each in rest of the three districts.
The Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Council had approved re-allocation of nearly 2,000 posts for Kashmiri Pandits who want to settle in the Valley. This re-allocation was part of the 3,000 posts announced in 2015.
The move was aimed at speeding up recruitment process under the prime minister’s package and to provide employment benefits to Kashmiri migrants and the non-migrant Kashmiri Pandit community.
It is to mention here that empathising with the pain of displaced Kashmiri Pandits during his whirlwind day-long tour of all three regions of the state in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that his government was committed to facilitate the return of Kashmiri Pandits to their homes in the valley with full honour and safely.
“The government at the Centre was dedicated to the causes of Kashmiri Pandits, who had to abandon their homes in Kashmir Valley in the wake of spread of terrorism. Central government is committed to ensure respect and dignity of the displaced community” the PM had said.
“The pain that they had to undergo, that they had to leave their homeland. I have never said this before but I have been feeling their pain within me,” the prime minister had maintained. |
