Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 9: The Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) demanded re-establishment of Provincial Rehabilitation Organisation for the welfare and settlement of DPs of 1947 from PoK as their rehabilitation is incomplete and insufficient even after the lapse of seven decades because of the non-serious attitude of previous dispensation of erstwhile state having some ulterior political motives and till than ex-officio PRO be allowed to function under Custodian EP Jammu.
While addressing the meeting at Baspur Bangla, Tehsil RS Pura, Gurdev Singh president alongwith Santosh Kumar Sharma, Netar Parkash and Dwarka Nath Khajuria said that Provincial Rehabilitation Organsation was constituted by the Govt in 1950 to manage the rehabilitation affairs of DPs and the same continued till the emergence of Dr Farooq Abdullah Govt, who disbanded the same in 1982 merely for political considerations. JKSAC staged strong protests and pressed hard upon the Govt to roll back the decision. Thereafter, rehabilitation cell was created in 1984 to find out solution of day-to-day matters relating to rehabilitation of DPs of 1947 from PoK and since then ex-officio PRO Cell is working under the charge of Custodian EP Jammu, who is looking after the problems of 26,319 registered DPs families having in possession all kinds of records.
He further said that order No. 912-JK(GAD) of 2020 dated 3-10-2020 issued by the Govt in connection with the posting and transfer of various KAS officers, wherein Additional Secy, DMRRR has been given the additional charge of ex-officio PRO Jammu, which has created chaos among the DPs of 1947. The speakers termed this order as most illogical and anti-DPs, which has been issued without proper application of mind. They urged upon Manoj Sinha, Lt. Governor of UT of J&K to take holistic view and review the order taking into consideration the sensitivity of the issue and PRO cell be allowed to function under Custodian EP, Jammu in the best interest of DPs having easy access to approach him for their problems.
Reacting over the said order Gurdev Singh termed this order as a bureaucratic and administrative conspiracy against DPs and asserted that such conspiracies were hatched earlier also and became the cause to delay and derail the issue resulting in their inadequate and insufficient rehabilitation.
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