Chandigarh, Apr 7: Haryana Government today ended the three-decade-long wait of the families of Kashmiri Hindus who between the years 1991 and 1993 had purchased land in Sector-2 of Bahadurgarh in Jhajjar district.
The Chief Minister announced ‘Vachanpurti’ scheme to allot plots to 182 families in Bahadurgarh. Making this historic announcement during a state-level programme held here, the Chief Minister physically handed over the allotment letters to some of the beneficiaries who were specially invited to attend the programme, while the rest of the families got the said letters from the State Cabinet Ministers and Minister of State and Administrative Officers who also virtually attended the programme from the districts.
Today is a historic day in Haryana’s history as the wait of families of Kashmiri Pandits who had purchased land in Congress tenure during 1991 and 1993 has finally ended today. In these 30 years they must have even lost the hope of getting their land which was sold to them without even telling its disputed status, Khattar said. He shared that after making some suitable amendments in the year 1997, some of the plots were released in favour of Kashmiri Pandits. But the families who did not get the land at that time had to wait for almost three decades.
“On April 6, 2022, after verification and required measurement of these plots being recorded at that time, the allotment process has already been done through the draw and today the letters to 182 families have been distributed to them. Other than the above-mentioned number, some of the families have already got their plots. Thus through this entire process promises made to these 209 families have been fulfilled,” he added.
The Chief Minister said this ‘Vachanpurti Mission’ is a befitting reply to the claims of the Opposition alleging that the present State Government had stopped financial aid of Rs 5000 to the Kashmiri Hindu families.
“I would like to clarify that the scheme of giving Rs.5000 as financial aid to these families was not started by us, it was Congress only which had framed these Rules that any family would get the said amount for a period of 5 years. As per our official data, right now out of the total five such families, only one family is getting this aid because it has not yet completed the five-year rule, while the rest have completed their five-year norm,” he said.
He said that unable to digest the success of the ‘Kashmir Files’ movie, the Opposition is making these baseless statements. (UNI)
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