Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 18: All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference, AJKPC has appealed to the State Government to award adequate compensation to the families and next of kin of the elected Panches and Sarpanches who have been killed by the terrorists since 2011 till date.
The demand has been made by Anil Sharma, the president of the organization while addressing a gathering there at Nagrota Assembly Constituency in an awareness program about implementation of 73rd Amendment of Indian Constitution in the J & K. He said, the State Government must rehabilitate and award adequate compensation to the next of kin of the martyr Panchayat members who for the sake of democracy sacrificed their lives but did not bow before the diktats of the terrorists.
Sharma asked the state Government to include the names of the family members of these deceased Panchayat members in the list of victims of terrorism and award the same compensation as awarded to other civilians killed recently in Kashmir.
Citing the example of one lady Panch, Zona Begum from Kashmir who have lost sight of her one eye due to injury of bullet by the coward terrorists almost 3 years ago, he informed that the poor family has yet not received any compensation.
Replying queries of the participants in the awareness program about significance of 73rd Amendment of Indian Constitution, he informed that except Jammu and Kashmir in other states, the Panchayats after implementation of 73rd amendment of Indian constitution are authorized to issue various certificates of public utilities like, birth certificate, income certificate, character/antecedent, registration of death certificate, identification of BPL persons under the jurisdiction of the Panchayat and the people there avail all these services without any hassle.
Prominent members present on the occasion included Balwan Singh, Saraj Din, Yograj Sharma, Amar Nath, Girdhari Lal,Jagdish Chander, Sadiq Mohd, Angrez Singh and Mohd Younis.
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