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| KPS expresses concern over attempts to grab properties of displaced KPs | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 3: Kashmiri Pandit Sabha (KPS) Jammu has taken serious notice of the reports emanating from the valley about large scale land grabbing incidents and tampering of revenue records pertaining to the left over properties of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits.While the Union Territory government and all its administrative arms are busy taking measures to handle the gigantic challenge posed by the pandemic, the land mafia who have no qualms of conscience are busy grabbing the lands and properties of the displaced pandits who have no way of looking after these properties while they live thousands of miles away from Kashmir, said Sabha.
That this is happening right under the nose of the UT Government and that too even in the heart of the summer capital Srinagar makes it all the more disconcerting and alarming, it added.
It also raises serious doubts about the competence and integrity of the officialdom which is charged with the responsibility of taking care of these assets till the exiled owners are in a position to return and re-possess them. The sabha expresses its distress over the lackadaisical attitude of the state administration especially in view of the fact that we have been consistently flagging this issue with the highest echelons of the state as well as the central Governments time and again through various memoranda. It is all the more depressing that such incidents have become more frequent notwithstanding the assurances given to our delegations by both G C Murmu and Manoj Sinha that the state would leave no stone unturned in ensuring that all such illegal encroachments would be got vacated and properties would be handed over to their rightful owners. As against this, the alarm raised by no less a person than the Mayor of Srinagar Junaid Azim Mattoo through his tweet yesterday about land grabbing incidents taking place in Bagh-e-Mehtab, Rawalpora and Soura have a totally different story to tell.
Sabha made a fervent appeal to the Lt Governor Sinha, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take immediate cognizance of the matter in case they are serious about resettling the community back in the valley. The other long standing demand of the Pandits which has been hanging fire for more than a decade for enactment of a law for protection of their temples and shrines has been brushed under the carpet and it now seems that the issue of land grabbing of private properties of the displaced pandits is also being ignored either because of incompetence or sheer callousness or perhaps both, on the part of the officialdom. |
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