Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 20: A Joint meeting of Jagti Tenement Committee (JTC)/ Soan Kashmir Front (SKF) and Pradesh Congress Committee Migrant Cell was held at Jagti township Nagrota near, here under the chairmanship of its president, Shadi Lal Pandita.
Addressing the meeting Shadi Lal Pandita said Government should release the salaries of the package employees as soon as possible.
Pandit said the package employees have been on protest sit-in for several months to get their demands met because the package employees on the list of terrorists who have been threatened to death.
Pandita said the Kashmiri Pandits and package employees are killed in Kashmir Valley which is the failure of the State and Central Government.
Pandita said the Government has stopped the salaries of the package employees which means that it wants to starve the package employees/Kashmiri Pandits which is a conspiracy to eliminate them everywhere.
Pandita raised all the demands on which the JTC/Soan Kashmir Front has been continuously protesting for the last two years and three months.
Pandita said that due to high inflation the relief holders are forced to live a very difficult life. Members said that due to poverty relief holders cannot educate their children well because the needs of reading and writing are also very expensive.
JTC members said that due to high inflation the relief holders can’t even buy medicines for the sick and can’t buy household goods.
The members urged the Government to increase the monthly cash relief from Rs 13,000 to Rs 25,000 per family.
They demanded a new package of 20,000 jobs for Kashmiri Pandit migrant unemployed youth. Besides, compensation for property loss of 32 years, pending Ex-gratia relief of gutted houses, compensation for over aged youth to be given. They urged the Government that the illegal occupation of land properties and religious places of Kashmiri Pandits should be removed in the Valley.
Besides, three townships should be set up in Anantnag, Srinagar and Baramulla to resettle Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley.
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