Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Oct 6: The Centre is committed toward rehabilitation of displaced Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley and will try to do away all their security concerns to ensure their safe return, Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office Dr Jitendra Singh said today.
He was speaking after meeting a delegation of Kashmiri Pandits, under the banner of Kashmiri Samiti Delhi, who submitted a charter of their demands to the Minister for their rehabilitation in the Valley.
“Kashmiri Pandits have been connected with their homeland through tradition and culture of Kashmir. I have kept their memorandum. We will go through it. The Government will fulfil all condition for their return raised by them. Government is committed towards their rehabilitation,” Singh told reporters here.
He also appreciated the delegation for offering help to the flood-affected people of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The Kashmiri Pandits community has been nationalist and devoted to the cause of the nation. It is a matter of happiness and satisfaction that despite being displaced they have commitment and love towards their homeland.
“The State has been affected by the floods and they have come here to offer help to their fellow Kashmiris whose lives have been devastated by the floods,” said Singh, a Lok Sabha MP from Udhampur constituency of Jammu and Kashmir.
Singh, who is also MoS for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension, said the Central Government has been doing all its bid to ensure rehabilitation of flood-affected people in Jammu and Kashmir.
The delegation of Kashmiri Samiti Delhi also handed over a detailed memorandum to Dr Jitendra Singh spelling out a number of demands including rehabilitation of displaced KPs at places of their present settlement, grant of ownership rights to the allottees of Jagti township near Jammu, compensation for over-aged Kashmiri Pandit youth, enhancement of monthly relief from Rs.1650 per head to Rs.5000 per head, bifurcation of migrant cards for displaced families living in Delhi on the pattern followed in Jammu where the minor children have become major, employment package for Kashmiri Pandit youth living outside the State and restoration of relief for registered migrants living in Delhi who were corporate employees and have since retired.
“We hope that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will look into our demands and take all steps to ensure their rehabilitation,” said Rakesh Razdan, vice president of Kashmiri Samiti Delhi.
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