Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 4: The Jammu and Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) has urged the State Governor N N Vohra to reframe one time settlement package for Displaced Persons (DPs) of 1947 from PoK and other categories under the guidelines of Joint Parliamentary Committee Report and also gear up the machinery to expedite the process for early disbursement of Rs 2000 crore announced by the Prime Minister.
In a meeting of the JKSAC held in RS Pura today under the chairmanship of Gurdev Singh (president), the members asserted that decades’ old legitimate one time settlement issues of DPs has never been taken seriously and never projected in right perspective by any Govt of the State. While expressing his gratitude to the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, he said that though this package has disillusioned DPs rather giving a solace to them as package lacks clarities from all the sides regarding the number of families to be accommodated and the quantum of amount to be given to each family besides other legitimate reservation / employment package issue for the children, yet it reaffirms the commitment given by Mr Modi to provide more funds to address the issue.
Mr Singh claimed that Governor is great sympathizer of the DPs and he can project their issue in better way before the Union Government. He urged the Governor N N Vohra to stress upon the Central Government to spell out in detail the contours of their one time settlement formula so that DPs could understand and cooperate the Government to arrive at a reasonable settlement to resolve this issue once for all. He further urged the Governor to advise his Revenue ad Relief authorities to prepare a simple format with simple formalities required for the identification as DPs to avoid their being harassed at the hands of vested elements within the organization.
Netar Parkash, Master Yog Raj, Parvesh Kumar, Harbans Singh and Retired JCO Daulat Ram also spoke on the occasion.
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