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| Centre likely to hike cash relief for displaced people by 50 to 100 % | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 5: The state Government has recommended to the centre that the cash incentive to the Kashmiri displaced families be increased from Rs.4000 to Rs.8,000 a month.Even after sending the recommendation to the Government of India the Revenue and Relief Minister, Raman Bhalla, is said to have raised the matter during his recent meeting with the union Home Minister, P.C.Chida-mbaram, in Jammu.
Senior functionaries of the Revenue Department said that various Kashmiri Pandit leaders had demanded that the monthly cash relief be increased from Rs.4,000 to Rs.10,000 a month in view of the price escalation of various commodities, inclu-ding foodgrains, pulses and medicines besides milk, curds, cheese and mutton.
According to senior leader of All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference, H.L.Chatha, displaced families spend,on an average, a big chunk of the cash relief on medicines and medicare. A number Pandit doctors said that majority of the displaced people have been suffering from various ailments, including hypertension, stress diabetes, renal failure and heart ailments which require immediate treatment. Reports reaching here from Delhi said that the Government of India may concede the demand of the state Government for hike in cash relief but it may agree to revise the relief from Rs.4,000 to Rs.6,000. However, Chatha said that the Government of India should realise the problems that the displaced people had been facing during the last 20 years and it was time that they got atleast a handsome hike in the cash relief. He said that in case the centre agreed to increase the monthly cash relief to only Rs.6,000 it should sanction atleast Rs.2,000 as medical allowance for each family per month. As far as the filling of vacant posts under the Prime Minister's employment package is concerned the Revenue Department has received applications from 12,000 educated unemployed displaced youths who had agreed to serve in the Kashmir valley. The Revenue Minister, Raman Bhalla,is said to have suggested to the Department to select the first list of 3,000 candidates on the basis of their merit. The selection process is to be completed on the basis of the qualification and the percentage of marks. Bhalla has opted for this safe course because he believed that introduction of the written test and viva voce was time consuming. He said that selection on the basis of merit in their academic qualification will leave no chance for raising fingers against the impartiality in the selection.
Bhalla is said to have requested the Government of India to include the remaining 3,000 posts in the central sector. Under the Prime Minister's employment package 3,000 posts were to be kept in the central sector for which the Government of India was to meet the wage bill and the remaining 3,000 posts were to be kept in the state sector. The state Government had two difficulties in keeping these 3,000 jobs in the state sector.First,its pecuniary difficulties had not allowed it to bear the wage bill for 3,000 employees. Secondly, under the state constitution there was no provision for reserving posts in Govern-ment offices on the basis of community.hence the state Government did not want to get jobs for unemployed educated displaced youth delayed.
The state had no other alternative but to request the centre to concede the demand for including 3,000 posts in the central sector.
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