Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Apr 11: Displaced Persons of 1947 from PoK today took out protest march and projected their issues.
The DPs led by president J&K Sharnarthi Action Committee, Poonch, Tarlok Singh Tara earlier held meeting and discussed the issues pertaining to distribution of one time package amount, as announced by the Prime Minister and ignoring the other components of the package as recommended by Joint Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs.
Tara while addressing gathering said that Govt of India must formulate a comprehensive road map of package taking into account the recommendations of Joint Parliamentary Committee. He also expressed strong resentment over the delay being caused in the release of package by direct cash transfer in DPs account.
He said during last one year hardly 7000 DPs have been provided relief amount. If this is the pace of relief distribution it would take more than five years in completion of this process. He demanded that reservation for the POK DPs in the Legislature and quota to their wards in professional colleges and also in Govt jobs.
Later, they took out a protest march in Poonch city shouting slogans in support of their demands. K K Kapoorm, Barkat Singh, Amar Singh and Capt Ashok Kumar also spoke on the occasion.
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