JTC, SKF demand registration of migrant families, hold protest

Activists of JTC and SKF protesting at Jagti on Thursday.
Activists of JTC and SKF protesting at Jagti on Thursday.

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 3: A meeting of Jagti Tenement Committee (JTC) and Soan Kashmir Front (SKF) was held at Jagti Nagrota under the chairmanship of its president, Shadi Lal Pandita today.
Addressing the members Pandita said that some families from Kashmir Valley have migrated to Jammu following selective and targeted killings in these villages.
He said that apart from them many families have also come to Jammu from Kashmir Valley due to fear of terrorism and they have no source of livelihood.
Pandita demanded their registration by the Relief and Rehabilitation Organisation as migrants and providing of all the facilities like migrants of 1990 to them.
He also stressed on the Government to meet the demands of the package employees and release their salaries who are on protest, sit-in for months together.
Pandita raised all the demands on which the JTC and SKF have been continuously protesting for the last two years.
He said that due to high inflation, the relief holders are forced to live in very difficult conditions and due to poverty they cannot educate their children because the education has also become very expensive.
The members urged the Government to increase the monthly cash relief from Rs 13,000 to Rs 25,000 for per family per month.
They also demanded a new employment package of 20,000 jobs for Kashmiri Pandit migrant unemployed youth and compensation for property loss of 32 years, pending Ex-gratia relief of gutted houses, compensation for over-aged youth , removal of Illegal occupation of land properties and religious places in Kashmir Valley.
After the meeting the JTC and SKF activists held a protest in the Jagti township.