Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 23: A five member delegation of Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) comprising, Dwarka Nath Khajuria, Santosh Kumar Sharma, Inderjeet Singh and Pitamber Dutt led by Gurdev Singh its president called upon Manoj Kumar Sinha, Lt Governor, UT of J&K.
The delegation apprised him as to how DPs were thrown out from their native places by Pakistani Tribals from PoK at the wee hours of Oct 7, 1947. They came to this side of J&K with empty pockets and bare footed and suffered untold sufferings and injustice at the hands of earlier State and Centre dispensation. The delegation urged upon the Lt Governor to prepare a comprehensive rehabilitation policy for DPs as per the latest Parliamentary Committee’s on Home Affairs Report No. 183, till PoK is liberated by India from the illegal occupation of Pakistan.
Gurdev Singh apprised Sinha in detail about various issues of DPs of PoJK regarding their full and final rehabilitation vis-à-vis compensation for their left-out properties, employment package and reservation for their wards, defreezing of 8 Assembly seats, mutation of lands under their dwellings and strict implementation of agrarian laws in respect of DPs, besides other issues. He demanded that a proposal should be submitted to Central Govt as per JPC Report to provide Rs 30 lakhs to each DP family as ex-gratia relief grant and over and above an employment package/reservation for the wards of DPs besides other components till PoK is liberated and loss of their lives and left-out properties is assessed for payment of adequate compensation.
He apprised Sinha that the DPs of 1947 from PoJK have not left their houses like Kashmiri migrants merely because of fear and having certain adverse social conditions, but the DPs were thrown out forcibly from their houses at the midnight by the Pakistani tribals abetted by Pakistan regular army. He was also told that more than 40,000 people of all ages were brutally slaughtered; women folks irrespective of their ages were raped, abducted and ravished, besides the properties of millions of rupees were looted and destroyed.
Sinha was also apprised that DPs were remained neglected, discriminated and were deprived of their legitimate rehabilitation by the erstwhile State and Central Govts. He was told that DPs have not been given compensation for their left-out property. Their wards have not been given any kind of reservation/employment package. Their share of 8 Assembly seats have not been defreezed and DPs were deprived to represent their aspiration. Singh said Rs 5.5 lakh compensation provided if not sufficient and Rs 30 lakh as recommended by JPC be provided to them. JKSAC leader demanded Chairperson Delimitation Commission must carve out two constituencies for DPs within the seven increased seats to allow them to represent their aspirations.
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