Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 18: JKPCC chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma and chairman JKPCC Refugees Cell Vinod Sharma have asked the Government to review its ill advised and unjust bifurcation of the post of PRO and Custodian EP, and club the same.
In a statement, the senior Congress leaders said that the Government has failed to review and reverse its ill advised order of bifurcation of the two posts of PRO and Custodian EP which were clubbed in the larger interests of the refugees/displaced persons of 1947. It is not understood what necessitated the posting of two officers that too without formal bifurcation of the two posts, when there was no demand to this effect from any quarter and rather the displaced persons are opposing this action of the Government.
Urging the LG and the new Chief Secretary to enquire into this illogical step and review the order at the earliest, they called for keeping check on anti-refugee actions. Stating that several hundred rural displaced families are suffering due to illegal and unauthorized possession of their allotted lands and are litigating in courts for decades, Government should examine the order of Apex Court upholding the order of J&K High court which had directed vacating if illegal possessions on the lands allotted to DPs of 1947 .
“The draft package forwarded to the Centre in 2014 by J&K Government on the initiative of the Congress party contained several recommendations apart from the financial aid of Rs 25 lakh per family but the BJP Government cheated the refugees/DPs of 1947, 1975 and 1971 by sanctioning only Rs 5.5 lakh ex-gratia against recommended Rs 25 lakh,” the Congress leaders said, adding, the meager installment of 5.5. lakh too has not been disbursed to thousands of DP refugee families.
They demanded the BJP Government to fulfill the loud commitments made with the DPs of 1947, 1965 and 1971 and sanction the full package immediately, including balance ex-gratia of Rs 24.5 lakh per family and other components.
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