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| Need to increase aid for orphans, destitutes in J&K | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 4: Despite liberal financial assistance from the state Government and from the Rehabilitation Council of India there has been a wide gap between the quantum of relief and demand for rehabilitation of orphans, widows and destitutes in Jammu and Kashmir. Official reports indicate that since the rise of militancy related activities and violence in Jammu and Kashmir in 1990 the total number of orphans,widows and destitutes has crossed three lakhs.Hence the task of rehabilitating these widows and orphans has become quite difficult because of paucity of funds. Though the Army has been running about seven orphanages besides a number of private orphanages a large number of widows,dstitutes and orphans have to bank on doles fro either some Government agencies or from some philanthrophists Official reports reveal that orphans and destitute widows pose a huge moral challenge to the people in Jammu and Kashmir. The society has responded through personal and private institutional efforts but the gap between the needs of the unfortunate among us and what has been one so far is still a yawning one. About 100,000 children in Jammu and Kashmir are estimated (by UNICEF) to be orphans. A poor fatherless child under the age of 18 falls in the category of an orphan. Most of the orphans here are a result of the ongoing conflict. According to surveys by various government and private agencies, Kupwara district has the highest number of orphans at about 24,000 followed by Anantnag and Budgam with 10,000 each. In the 2007, a survey done by Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) found that in some parts of Kashmir, one in three Kashmiris had lost members of their extended families to the conflict and a similar number had contemplated suicide. The rise in the number of orphans and widows led to the establishment and increase in the number of charitable centers which help the destitute of Kashmir. There are more than 3,000 registered NGOs and many other unregistered ones which operate in Kashmir but only a few are working for orphans. Officials at these orphanages say, the major portion of their funds comes as donations by individuals and a very little portion comes for sponsored programmes. Those connected with relief and rehabilitation of orphans and destitutes have conveyed to the Government that it should increase financial support to the social welfare Department so that orphanages wer e given added monetary support for running the centres on scientific basis.
They have demanded setting up a high level committee for surveying the difficulties being f aced by orphans and widows in the s tat e so that various measures for taken in hand for enabling these orphans and destitutes to stand on their legs. In this connection the Government has been advised to assist these destiutues and widows in setting up mall business ventures so that after some years they did not need any financial support fromeither the Government or from the philanthrophists. |
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