Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr18: The Jammu and Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) has demanded a composite township for displaced persons of 1947 from PoK on the pattern of Kashmiri migrants.
In a core group meeting of the Committee held here today, the members welcomed the formation of a committee under the chairmanship of DyCM, Dr Nirmal Singh as announced by the Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed on the floor of the House to resolve the long pending legitimate issues of the DPs of 1947 and other categories in the recently concluded Assembly session.
Gurdev Singh president of the JKSAC said that the Government must spell out in detail the contours of their one time settlement formula. He termed the previous package as half cooked and politically motivated by the outgoing Government. He urged upon the Government to redraft the package taking into consideration their sufferings, material and physical loss and also urged the Govt to form a consultative committee comprising of representatives of DPs to assist Dr Nirmal Singh panel in preparing a comprehensive package broadly taking into consideration the problems confronting DPs within and outside the State.
While reacting to the statement of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, favouring separate township for Kashmiri Pandit migrants, the JKSAC leader said that KPs are not the only people who left Kashmir in 1990 exodus. There are other Hindu and Sikhs who also migrated from Valley and other parts of Jammu region, and are living under pitiable condition. They have been deprived of the concessions which are allowed to the Kashmiri migrants.
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