Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 9: Reacting strongly on the issue of return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandit migrants in the Valley, Chief patron of National Panthers Party, Prof Bhim Singh today questioned the Union Government and PDP-BJP coalition Government in the State on the fate of about 5000 Hindu migrant families who also were forced to migrate from their homes by the majority community and have been languishing in different areas and stinking camps in Talwara and other places.
He said we welcome the initiative of the Government for the rehabilitation of the Kashmiri Pandits back in their homes in the Valley with full financial backing and security but why the discrimination is being done with Jammu migrants.
Prof Singh said, “A Jammu migrant (each individual) is given Rs 400 per month relief whereas a Kashmiri Migrant is given Rs 1000 per month. Similarly, maximum relief to Kashmiri Pandit family is Rs 4000 whereas a Jammu Hindu migrant family is given only Rs 1600 per month. Each KP migrant is getting all other benefits like medical care, schooling, Government jobs and free admission in the professional colleges in the country”.
He said that KP families have been provided some kind of respectable and reasonable shelter wherever they have settled in the country. “The Jammu Migrants, on the other hand, are literally begging in the streets without any job or work. About 40 boys were employed as daily wagers in the police but they were shunted out years back. Not a single Jammu Migrant has been provided free schooling facility or even free medical treatment and there is no question of any work even as a daily wager”, he added.
He wondered that the Union Government has directed for creating a separate colony with full security for the Kashmiri Migrants whereas it has not even mentioned a word on the Jammu migrants who are not asking for a separate colony or any separate homeland and prepared to go back to their homes provided the Central or State Government is prepared to rebuild/restructure their houses which were destroyed by the terrorists.
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