Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 22: A Joint meeting of Kashmiri Khatri Hindu Mahajan Sabha (KKHMS), Kashmiri Khatri Youth Sabha (KKYS) and Displaced Kashmiri Unemployed Youth Union (DKUYU) was held at Jagti township near here under the chairmanship of president of KKHMS, Ramesh Chander Mahajan.
The meeting discussed various issues being faced by the displaced people from Valley.
It said thousands of Kashmiri Hindus families had to leave Kashmir valley in 1990 leaving behind movable and immovable properties worth lakhs of rupees and forced to live like wandering nomads looking for help and succour.
It said due to prevailing situation the community has lost its identity and is in a trauma of forced migration, exposure to an alien and hostile environment, problem of acclimatization, poor housing, insanitary conditions, lack of basic amenities like drinking water, electricity, shortages of medicare, malnutrition and idleness which have added to the woes of the minority community.
The statement said the community’s hopes have dried up. The spectra of disease, death of two generations and extinction are haunting the community. It seems unlikely that the community will ever be able to organise itself again into a cohesive social and political entity which is vital for its survival and resurgence. Far from regaining its pristine glory, it is feared that at the present rate of dispersal the migrants community is disintegrating beyond redemption and facing total extinction, the statement added.
It said struggle for permanent proportionate share of land made available for the Kashmiri migrants for rehabilitation in Kashmir valley or permanent settlement out side the J&K State any where in India .i.e separate Union Territory status for all migrants communalities with guarantee from Governments and under the control of Indian Constitution that no exodus will take place in future.
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