Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 5: All India Jat Mahasabha (AIJM) urged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to announce special package for the border dwellers of Jammu region likely to be announced by him for Kashmir during his visit to the State on November 7.
Addressing a press conference, Choudhary Manmohan Singh, State President, All India Jat Mahasabha (AIJM) along other community members and representatives of border communities said that the people living along with border from Kathua to Mendhar are facing manifold problems.
The border residents are having hope that the Prime Minister during his visit to J&K on November 7 will announce a special package for them at par with Kashmir, Singh added.
He stated that last year PM celebrated Diwali in Kashmir and he is visiting Kashmir before Diwali this year also. On behalf of border residents, Singh appealed to the PM to visit the border areas in Jammu region this year to celebrate Diwali with people and the army personnel, guarding the India-Pakistan border, so as to boost their morale.
“We expect that Prime Minister will announce the remedies of our genuine demands during his J&K visit”, he said.
Singh demanded one time settlement to the tune of Rs 30 lakh in favour of families displaced during Indo-Pak war in 1947, 1965 and 1971, 5 marla plot at safer place for border area people, RBA category for the people residing within 8 kilometers from border, immediate treatment to the injured people in the Army/Private Hospitals on Government expenses, ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to kin of those who lost their lives in border firing, Rs 5 lakh to those who got injured in firing, Rs 50,000 for animals which got killed/injured in firing, insurance cover to the people, animals and their crops.
He also demanded Government job to kin of those who got killed or become permanent disabled including free education to their children in Army schools, private schools, colleges and Universities, shifting of existing fence to zero line and suitable compensation for uncultivated land across fence and reservation in professional colleges outside the State at par with Kashmiri migrants.
Among others present were DSP Diwan Singh, Sobha Singh, Col RL Gangal, Choudhary Sham Lal, Choudhary Rashpal Singh, Choudhary Bachan Singh Sarpanch, Capt Gopal, Kuldeep Kour and Baldev Singh.
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