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| KP leaders demand implementation of PSC report on rehabilitation of migrants | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 22- Leaders of various Kashmiri Pandit organizations have urged the centre and the state Government to implement the recommendations made in the 137th Report of the department related Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) on Home Affairs on Rehabilitation of J & K Migrants.
Dr Ajay Chrungoo chairman Panun Kashmir said that the Parliamentary standing committee on Home Affairs had made several recommendations for ameliorating the lot of Kashmiri displaced people but so far the Government has not initiated any step for implementing some of the recommendations.
He and General Secretary All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference, HL Chatha, said that even the committee had felt the need for hiking the sustenance allowance in the context of rising cost of living index and inflation. They said that Pandit bodies have been demanding Rs.2000 per head as monthly cash relief. Chatha demanded that the Government had done nothing as far as the need for securing enhanced medical allowances were concerned. He said that over the years a large number of displaced people died of even minor ailments because the patients could not bear the cost of medical treatment.
H.N.Jattu of All India Kashmiri Pandit Conference said that not much has been done to improve the living conditions of the displaced families in camps in Jammu, Udhampur, Nagrota and Delhi .He wanted the Government to implement the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee which has directed the centre and the state Government to better the environment in the camp areas. He said the centre should direct all state Governments to provide relief to the migrants at an uniform pattern. The centre, he said, should also instruct the state Governments to provide land to the displaced people for constructing dwellings under some housing scheme.
The Pandit leaders wanted immediate steps for providing employment to the educated youths belonging to the migrant families. They also demanded that the Government should come forward for encouraging Pandit youths to undertake self employment under which they could be helped in setting up small industrial units. They wanted the Government to initiate measures for halting the grabbing of Hindus immovable assets in Kashmir and remove encroachment of their land and houses. They demanded that Government should intervene and restore all the shrines along with their land to the Pandit organization.
The leaders said that before forcing Pandit employees and others to return to Kashmir the Government should first improve the security scenario in the valley. They said that several prominent citizens in Kashmir including religious leaders be involved in confidence building measures. If the Government failed to involve Muslim leadership in confidence building measures, there was need for giving a serious thought on Panun Kashmir's demand for homeland
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