Multi-pronged approach in place to tackle infiltration
UT gets Rs 9120 cr under SRE Police Scheme
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Apr 26: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been closely and continuously monitoring security situation in Jammu and Kashmir in tandem with various security agencies while a multi-pronged approach is in place to contain cross-border infiltration along International Border (IB) as well as Line of Control (LoC).
This has been revealed in a report of the MHA on Jammu and Kashmir released today.
With a view to further strengthen security apparatus in Jammu and Kashmir, the Central Government has provided Rs 9120.69 crore to Jammu and Kashmir under Security Related Expenditure (Police) scheme.
“Security situation in J&K is monitored and regularly reviewed by the Government of UT, Army, paramilitary forces and other security agencies. The MHA also monitors security situation closely and continuously in tandem with all security agencies and the Ministry of Defence (MoD),” the report said.
It added that a multi-pronged approach is in place to contain cross-border infiltration which includes multi-tiered deployment along the International Border/Line of Control, border fencing, improved intelligence, operational coordination, equipping security forces with advanced weapons and taking proactive action against infiltrators.
Asserting that Jammu and Kashmir has been affected by terrorist and secessionist violence, sponsored and supported from across the border, the MHA said from 110 militants killed in 2014, the figures reached 221 in 2020. At the same time, civilian killings also went up from 28 in 2014 to 37 in 2020 and that of security personnel from 47 in 2014 to 62 in 2020.
“Militancy in Jammu and Kashmir is intricately linked with infiltration of terrorists from across the border,” the MHA report said, adding that there has been decline in infiltration attempts as well as net estimated intrusions.
In 2014, 222 infiltration bids took place and the number came down to 99 in 2020. Similarly, net estimated infiltration was 65 in 2014 which declined to 51 in 2020.
The report mentioned that the Union Home Ministry has approved raising of five Indian Reserve Police battalions, two border battalions and two Women battalions in Jammu and Kashmir. Recruitment has already been completed for five IR battalions.
As per the report, Pakistan-sponsored terrorism forced 64,827 Kashmiri Pandit families to leave the Kashmir valley in the early 1990s and settle in Jammu, Delhi, and some other parts of the country.
“As many as 14,091 civilians and 5,356 security force personnel lost their lives to militancy in Jammu and Kashmir between the 1990s, when militancy first raised its head in the Valley, and 2020.
Besides Kashmiri Pandits, militancy forced some Sikh and Muslim families too to migrate from Kashmir valley to Jammu, Delhi, and other parts of the country.
Nearly 1,054 families from the hilly areas of Jammu migrated to Jammu plains, the report said.
As per the records of registration available with the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner (Migrants) J&K, at present 43,618 registered Kashmiri migrant families are settled in Jammu, 19,338 families are settled in Delhi and NCR, and 1,995 families in a few other States and the UTs in the country, the report said.
With a view to resettle Kashmiri migrants in the Valley, the MHA has approved 3,000 jobs in the J&K Government under Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Package – 2008, and an additional 3,000 jobs under the Prime Minister’s Development Package – 2015 (PMDP-2015).
To house these 6,000 Kashmiri migrant employees in the valley, construction of 6,000 transit accommodations at an outlay of Rs 920 crore has also been approved by the MHA.
Under the scheme, 1,025 flats have been completed or “substantially completed” and 1,488 are under construction.
The report said that a total of 2,546 terror incidents sponsored by Pakistan took place in Jammu and Kashmir from 2014 to 2020, in which 481 security personnel, 215 civilians, and 1,216 terrorists were killed.
There were 1,776 infiltration attempts from across the border to Jammu and Kashmir between 2014 and 2020, of which 685 were successful.
The annual report said under the Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP)-2015, financial assistance of Rs 5.50 lakh is also being disbursed to the 36,384 families which were displaced from Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), Chhamb, and Niabat and had settled in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Central Government has approved a similar financial assistance for inclusion of those Displaced Persons (DP) families. Out of the 5,300 DP families of PoJK, 1,947 initially had opted to move outside the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir, but later returned and settled there.
A total of Rs 1,371.13 crore has been disbursed to 31,670 beneficiaries till December 31, 2020.
Financial assistance of Rs 5.5 lakh per family has also been approved by the Government of India with an outlay of Rs 317.02 crore for 5,764 families of West Pakistan Refugees (WPRs), who had migrated from several areas of West Pakistan in the aftermath of the partition of 1947 and settled in different parts of the Jammu region, the report said.
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