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| Employment package will be a trend setter for KPs return | | | ASHWANI
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 20: With the release of special job package for Kashmiri migrant youth the Government has now formally set in motion the return formula of displaced Pandits to their homes and hearths in Kashmir Valley.
The release of first list of over 1100 migrant teachers has been widely welcomed by the displaced youth and their families who have shown their all willingness to work in different parts of the trouble torn and militancy infested Kashmir. The positive response shown by the KP youth and other members of the community to the package have even surprised their leadership who have many apprehensions about their security and safety in the Valley in prevailing circumstances.
The KP leadership apprehending criticism from youth, could not come out a clear cut policy on the package and community's overall response against it though they had many apprehensions from the beginning.
A section of KP think tank is of the view that if the return for some jobs or the economic package is not the main motive of community's struggle in exile . “We left Kashmir to save our honour and dignity where the gun ruled roost and the conditions have not changed since then''. The gun still rules the roost and militants and separatists writ runs large in Kashmir today also so under these circumstances it will be very difficult for the KP youth to serve in far flung and remote areas of Valley, said Kundan Kashmiri, chairman Kashyap Trust.
Maintaining that the unemployment is a grave problem before the displaced youth but it could have been solved by absorbing them in Central Government offices and nationalised banks in Valley which are in security zones. Moreover the community leadership was supposed to be taken into confidence which the Government could not do. What measures it has taken for the security of these 3000 KP youth who will in the first instance go to serve in Kashmir Valley, he asked?
However the KP youth are of the opposite view and they are totally willing to serve in any part of Kashmir. Renuka, a BSC part third student, whose one of the close relatives figures in the list, said that it is a golden opportunity for the community youth and they should not leave it. What problems the Pandits have in living with majority community in Kashmir when over 5000 community members are happily living in valley for last 20 years after majority of the community migrated from there.
However the KP organizations ASKPC and Panun Kashmir which recently had out rightly rejected the package demanding appointment of youth in camp schools, dispensaries and other migrant offices in Jammu met stiff opposition from community youth who also warned to ghearo them if they continue to oppose the employment package. This has forced the other KP organizations not to air their feelings on the issue. Instead of reacting to the package various KP leaders have adopted a wait and watch policy. The leadership should not act and adopt wait and watch policy said Vir ji a KP leader. He said the situation is no way better for Pandits in Kashmir at present so let us wait and see how the separatist and Hurriyat especially the hardliner group reacts to it. The people who are opposed to Amarnath Yatra should not go beyond 50 days can't be pleased to see Pandits back in Valley, he added.
Employment package will be a litmus test and trend setter for community's return to valley said Rakesh Koul, a Delhi based KP leader and it will be premature to draw inferences at this juncture.
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