Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 26: All Parties Migrants Co-ordination Committee (APMCC) the apex organization of displaced Kashmiri Pandits has reiterated its demand for establishment of Kashmiri Pandit Development/ Welfare Board on the pattern of other similar welfare/development boards constituted for other ethnic communities to oversee all the affairs related to Kashmiri Pandits.
In a joint statement Vinod Pandit chairman APMCC and National spokesperson APMCC King Bharati have said that Kashmiri Pandits who are living in forced exile for the past 26 years have faced Government apathy due to absence of any constitutional authority to deal with the affairs related to their welfare.
The leaders said that organizations like Relief Department should be disbanded and all the affairs handed over to the Kashmiri Pandit Development/ Welfare Board with full representation of Kashmiri Pandits.
Vinod Pandit said that the present PDP-BJP coalition Government must consider their demand on priority basis as Kashmiri Pandits were becoming restive with no imminent headway of their welfare schemes announced by the Government from time to time.
King Bharati, National spokesperson while elaborating their demand said that since there have always been talks of return of migrants to Valley, establishing townships, enhancement of relief, but on ground nothing has happened due to absence of any constitutional authority that can effectively take-up these issues with the Government.
Bharati said that establishment of a Welfare/Development Board exclusively for Kashmiri Pandits envisaged by APMCC in its Vision Document, “Path for Survival” released in 2006 would go a long way to mitigate the problems of the community adding the present relief organization dealing with migrants should immediately disbanded and all the affairs of relief, return, and other, matters handed over to the board where only Kashmiri Pandits should decide the developmental issues for the community.
He warned that any delay in mitigating the miseries of Kashmiri Pandits would only aggravate the issue forcing them to come out on streets to seek justice.
He said that now since the new Government has taken over in the State it must show its concern for KPs for which the first step can be establishment of Kashmiri Pandit Development/ Welfare Board in the State.
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