Migrants deprived of Govt welfare schemes: AIMCCC

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 9: All India Migrant Camp Coordination Committee (AIMCCC) in a meeting at Jagti today held under the chairmanship of its president, Desh Rattan expressed serious concern over the step-motherly treatment of the Government towards the long standing issues of displaced Pandits from Valley.
Addressing the meeting Desh Rattan said that the displaced Pandits in camps and non camp areas were not included in Viksit Bharat Yatra and nobody in Government bothered to take the welfare schemes of the Government to these people.
He said Pandits need healing touch and appropriate steps be taken for their one time settlement in Valley as per their geo-political aspirations.
Expressing grave concern over encroachment of land and mutation of land records in the settlement, he demanded a thorough probe into the same and immediate restoration of Pandits land encroached by the land mafia in the Valley.
He said that the Government should frame an inventory of entire land belonging to Hindu shrines and temples in Valley prior to 1988 and its status at present. Those who have grabbed or sold this land illegally be booked under law of the land and punished, he added.