Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 30: Madan Mohan Gupta, General Secretary, Mirpur Balidan Bhawan Samity, New Delhi, has demanded that the Rehabilitation Package of Rs 5.5 lakhs to each displaced family should be extended to the Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir Displaced Persons living outside J&K as after obtaining Domicile Certificate they now stand at par with the Displaced Persons settled in Jammu & Kashmir.
“What is the fault of those who settled in other States/UTs on the direction of the then State Government. They did not leave the State on their own rather they were forced and pushed out of the State initially by Kabailees and subsequently by our own Government. This way the Displaced families living outside J&K are double victims and have faced more difficulties and problems than those who settled in Jammu and Kashmir,” he said in a statement, issued here today.
The UT Government of Jammu & Kashmir vide its Govt Order No. 52-JK (DMRRR) of 2020 dated 16.05.2020 had granted Registration of Displaced Persons for the issuance of Domicile Certificate to these families irrespective of the place where they are residing now. Registration as Displaced Person has been done by the Relief & Rehabilitation Commissioner Migrants, Jammu in respect of the Displaced Persons living outside J&K and also issued Domicile Certificate to them.
Gupta also demanded that a Displaced Persons Grievances/Relief Board may be constituted where the Displaced Persons may file their grievances because presently there is no body which is taking care of them.
He also demanded a recruitment drive exclusively for the wards of the Displaced Persons, reservation to the wards of Displaced Persons in Government jobs, employment and for admission in academic and technical Colleges/ Institutions, allotment of land in Jammu to start another branch of Mirpur Balidan Bhawan Samity, New Delhi for the welfare of Displaced Families from Mirpur.
“This will help the new generations of DPs to remain in contact with their native State/UT who have lost their language, culture etc,’ Gupta said and added that the land may be provided to the Displaced Persons in Jammu on concessional rate in lieu of their movable and immovable properties left at their native place in Mirpur (PoJK).
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