‘Revoke decision on power tariff’
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 15: The Kashmir migrants living in camps have expressed their serious concern over the non payment of electricity charges of migrant quarters by Relief Organization saying that on a meager cash relief of Rs 3250 per soul the displaced people from Valley are unable to pay the power tariff.
While Jagti Tenement Committee (JTC) and Soan Kashmir Front (SKF) continued its protest for second day at Jagti township today, All India Migrant Camp Coordination Committee (AIMCCC) has warned to launch an agitation in all migrant camps of Jammu against the decision if Government failed to revoke the decision within two days.
JTC and SKF on the second day today held a protest at Jagti township under the chairmanship of its president Shadi Lal Pandita.
Pandita said that the order passed by the Government for migrants living camps to pay electricity bills which is completely unfair for the exiled Kashmiri Pandits. Pandita said that the migrants of the Jagti township strongly protested against the payment of electricity fee and urged the Government to withdraw this order.
The protestors said that the Kashmiri Pandits have been forced to leave Kashmir by militants while their land has been occupied by the anti national elements and their house were razed to ground by them.
They said that migrants living in camps having no other source of income except meager cash relief are unable to make their both ends meet and hence they can’t pay the power tariff.
They said Government has failed to resettle them permanently during last 33 years in Kashmir while every KP family has lost property worth crores of rupees
for which State and Center Government is responsible.
They demanded rehabilitation of Pandits in Valley with restoration of their land and other property besides the payment of compensation for losses suffered by them during 33 years.
AIMCCC president, Desh Ratan Pandita while ridiculing the Government decision said the exodus of Pandits is the great human tragedy of 20th century and instead of rehabilitating the community in Valley by fulfilling their geo-political aspirations Government was adding to their miseries by taking such harsh decisions. He said the genocide of Pandits was greatest failure of Indian secularism.
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