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| Migrants happy over Jagati township | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, March 5: Vinod Kumar Dhar the lone survivor of Vandhama massacre has finally got some relief and he feels sort of stability after he got the documents of the flat that has been allotted to him in the newly constructed township of Jagati.
After years of suffering in claustrophobic spaces, it is a time of celebration for the exiled Kashmir Pandit community living in the various camps of Jammu. For Vinod Kumar Dhar, the lone survivor of vandhama Massacre and Babli, wife of the victim of 1995 purani Mandi bomb blast who are living in Muthi camp present days are the last few days of sufferings as they along with the other residents of camps will be shifted to Jagati township.
When Prime Minister dedicated the satellite township to the exiled community joy beamed out on the faces of the exile weary Kashmir Pandits who are living in the various migrant camps of Jammu.
Waiting that one day they will finally return home in Kashmir, the people of the migrant camp had also nursed the hope that till return becomes a reality, they ought to live in better living conditions, which however eluded her for the last decade and a half, like the rest of the displaced in the rest of the migrant camps.
But finally after the inauguration og the Jagati township by the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan, there were celebrations in the different migrant camps of Jammu. Meetings, celebrations and gatherings are being held and the move of the government is being hailedhailed. Mood was upbeat in most of the camps, as this hinted that finally their wait is over.
Though most camp inmates are happy over up gradation to better living conditions that Jagti township promises, some Pandit leaders have different take on the rehabilitation programme of Centre. While one section of the Pandit leadership is apprehensive that allotment of two rooms and a township at Jagti indirectly means that government has made up its mind to permanently settle the displaced community in Jammu, most of the other sections are stressing that the present allotment and the Jagti project is technically up gradation of the existing migrants camps in a consolidated way and should not be linked to the return issue at all.
Ashwani Kumar Chrangoo president Panun Kashmir while talking to Early times said, “The Jagati township is just a part of the confidence building measure but the return of the community to their homeland is yet to be done”.
Sharing his feelings on the construction of Jagti township by the government, camp inmate from Muthi, Badrinath, 74, said that more than 5000 displaced families who have been languishing in the claustrophobic one room tenements for the last 20 years, have a right to live in better conditions, adding that it was a good move. He said that even PM had made it clear in his address that Kashmiri Pandits will return to Kashmir as normalcy returns there, while terming the two room tenements as a temporary measure.
The township at Jagti envisages construction of 4,218 two-room flats, a 40-bed hospital, a higher secondary, a middle school and two community halls. Being built under the Prime Minister's Reconstruction Plan (PMRP) at a revised cost of Rs. 385 Crore, the project comprised two phases. In the first phase, as many as 1,024 flats have already been constructed at Purkhoo, Muthi and Nagrota and allotted to beneficiaries. In the second phase, the remaining 4,218 two-rooms have been constricted and the project is likely to be completed by April-end.
It was in November 2004 that Prime Minster Manmohan Singh during his visit to Muthi migrant camp had announced the construction of more than 5000 two rooms’ sets for the Kashmiri migrants living in the camps here. Later in July 2007, PM laid the foundation stone for the satellite township comprising of 4200 two rooms sets at Jagti Nagrota in the outskirts of Jammu city.
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