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| First raise their economic status then raise Pandit population | | (Behind the veil) | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 20: The Kashyap Bandhu Committee has decided to institute an award for those Kashmiri Pandit women who have more than two children.Under the scheme women with more than two children will receive a ceritficate of honour and a reward. This step is being take to encourage elligible couples to prevent the community from facing fast extinction.
When the Commuttee members met in Jammu on Sunday they debated on the UN report which has stated that Kashmiri Pandits were one of the communities in the world that are on the verge of extinction.Yes,during the last 20 years there has been a rapid fall in the population of the Pandits because of various psychological,health and economic problems.
It is not for the first time that an organisation connected with the welfare of Kashmiri Pandits has devised a novel way for saving the community from extinction.In the late 80's the Mirwaiz of South Kashmir,Qazi Nissar,had announced a reward of Rs.one lakh to those muslim couples who have more than 10 children.He had made this announcement to encourage elligible couples to further increase the population of muslims in the state of Jammu and Kashmir,though the state was a muslim majority area.
Possibly Qazi Nissar had fears that the Government of India by r aising residential complexes for the paramilitary forces was trying to change the demographic character of the valley.In order to counter this move,in fact there was no such plan,the Qazi had instituted the award.He had also learnt that more and more muslim elligible couples had gone in for planned family as they had come to the conclusion that smaller the family the better are the chances for good living and good education for the children.
Even if a large number of muslim families had accepted the Qazi's suggestion there would have been no major problem for them.But as far as Kashmiri Pandit community was concerned there is no other alternative but to go in for small and planned families.After their migration from the valley in 1990 several thousand Pandit families had to live in small tenements and rented rooms,besides the camps.Though during the last 20 years there has been considerable improvement in their lodging facilities still several hundred families continue to live in one-room tenement in Muthi and Mishriwala and other places.
Before making an announcement regarding awarding certificate of honour besides some reward the Kashyap Bandhu committee should have given a thought to one question.Are the elligible couples in the Pandit community in a position to look after three or more kids ?Are they able to ensure quality education to their three more children?Are they in a position to bear the expenses on medicines and milk that their children may require ?Are they prepared to meet the expenss on clothing,food and on other requirements of their children,if the number is more than three ?
Certainly not.There are hundreds of families among the Kashmiri Pandits which are not in a position to meet expenses on education and other necessaries of even one child when majority of these families bank on the paltry Government cash relief.It is not possible for these Pandit families to live with more than three children in one-room tenement.
Though the organisations by the Pandits and for the Pandits have mushroomed during the last 20 years no organisation has been in a position to mitigate economic and physical distress of the internally displaced people.It is equally strange that the Pandits have not been able to establish a professional college or institute,like a college of engineering or a medical college,exclusively for the community students when communities with population lesser than Pandits have set up professional colleges.
Even if the Kashyap Bandhu Committee gives a reward of Rs.10,000 to Rs.50,000 it would not help the elligible couples within the Pandit community to improve their economic conditions to the extent that they are in a position to feed and educate more than three children.Kashyap Bandhu committee or other committees need to devise ways and means for economic uplift of the community before they think of increasing the population.
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