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| Displaced people need dignified rehabilitation not restoration of sold assets | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 18: If the parliamentary standing committee on Home Affairs has suggested to the state Government to restore immovable property, that had been sold as part of the distress sale in the Kashmir valley during the last 20 years, to the displaced people it is not as practicable as one wishes it to be.
A mere recommendation by a parliamentary committee does not have any legal or constitutional binding on the state Government. The exercise on restoring to the displaced Hinds their immovable assets needs a legal and constitutional support. What is surprising is the way the state Government has not been able to protect the immovable assets that had been grabbed or encroached on by the land grabbers in various areas of the valley.
Apart from individual assets there are a number of temples whose land and compounds have been grabbed or encroached upon by the vested interests and in certain cases temple and shrine lands have been sold by the vested interests for a song they were not entitled or authorised to sell the property. Her Government can intervene and restore to the temples and the shrines their land that had been grabbed illegally.
Politically and practically it is neither feasible nor advisable for any Government to declare all the sale deeds, reached out between the sellers (displaced people) and the buyers within the valley, null and void. Whosoever purchased houses from the displaced people have either rebuilt new ones or renovated the old one's and utilised them for commercial purposes it would not be possible for them to return those houses for the mount they had paid to the displaced families.
W hen the sale deeds were carried out there was no law that prohibited purchase of land and houses of displaced people. In the absence of such law all the sale deeds have been registered in the courts thereby making the distress sale deeds legal.
The Government, hence, needs to evolve a new mechanism which would leave no scope for regional or communal tension in the state. This can be achieved if the Central Government initiates number of measures that would lead to proper rehabilitation of the displaced families that decide to return to the valley. One such measure can be in the shape of full financial help for building houses and for enovating those that have not been sold yet.
Besides this one important thing was to create an atmosphere that would be conducive for the displaced people for returning to the valley. One important step has been taken by none other than Syed Ali Shah Geelani who heads the hardliners among the separatists. He has, on the other day, assured pandits of their safety in the valley.
The separatist leader has assured Kashmiri Pandits that Muslim majority in Jammu and Kashmir would protect their Hindu brethren if they returned to the Valley. He also rejected the idea of setting up safety zones for Pandits because "this gives a sense of divide between the Muslims and the Hindus".
"On behalf of the Muslim majority of the Valley, I assure you that your temples, lives, property and honour will be protected by us when you return to your original homes here," Geelani, head of the radical Hurriyat group, told people at a camp.
The separatist leader was addressing 142 families comprising 500 men, women and children, who welcomed him at the Vessu migrant transit camp in south Kashmir's Anantnag district. "None of you will ever come to any harm from your Muslim brothers," he assured them.
This is a major deviation from the earlier stand of the separatists who used to say that Kashmir Pandits were welcome to the valley provided they joined the jehad or campaigned for the right of self-determination for the people of the state. No preconditions are being imposed on their return to Kashmir. This is a healthy change that needs to be cash on. If people, especially the militants abide by the directions of Geelani it is then for the Government to build houses or flats for the displaced people without easting its time on evolving ways for rendering all sale deeds null and void. |
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