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| POK displaced persons lists several demands | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 13: POK displaced persons front (1947) president S. Kulwant Singh addressing the persons said that the people who were displaced from the Pakistan occupied part of Jammu and Kashmir In 1947 are still aggrieved and agitating as no compensation has been provided for the holocaustic sufferings they faced, the property they left behind and the means of livelihood they permanently lost, even after the lapse of more than 60 years.
The Government of India and Jammu and Kashmir Govt. have not evolved any concrete policy to attend to their grievances, settle their due claims once for all. These displaced persons had undergone through enormous miseries and faced extremely difficult situations after being uprooted from their native places. In Pakistan aggression of 1947 their kith and kins were massacred, the women folk were abducted, raped and subjected to barbaric treatment, number of children turned orphans and women became widows and old people lost their hopes and desires after losing their young ones.
The main crisis before these DPs is loss of their identity and culture. They are a scattered lot, spread across the length and breadth of the country, though majority of them are putting up in Jammu province.
They were not given any preferential treatment in providing Govt. jobs, helped in starting their own venture/business to earn both ends meal and any regular monetary assistance for sustaining their families. What they were provided was a ex-gratia relief of Rs3500/-. Cost of the land / plot/ quarter that was given to the displaced persons was adjusted against this temporary relief. There are number of DPs who have not been registered as DPs and who have not been provided this ex-gratia relief of Rs 3500/-.
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