Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 24: Displaced Persons from Pak occupied Jammu and Kashmir today held protest demonstration, projecting their demands of allotment of 10 marla plots and provide 12 Assembly seats to the DPs from PoJK.
A large number of displaced persons, under the banner of PoJK DPs’ Front 1947, 1965 and 1971 and (Non Camp) led by its president, Capt (Retd) Yudhvir Singh Chib assembled at Maharaja Hari Singh Park in Jammu today and started protest demonstration. They were demanding that DPs be given compensation @ Rs 30 lakh per family as recommended by the Joint Parliamentary Committee. Moreover, pending amount of Rs 24.50 lakhs should also be paid. He said Rs 5.50 lakh per family was first installment of the PM package. They tried to take out protest march towards Civil Secretariat but were stopped by police,
The DPs’ leader said thousands kanals of govt land has been retrieved from the land encroachers in Jammu and Kashmir and out of this 10 marla land/plots be allotted to the PoJK DPs and other refugees. Land should also be allotted to non-camp refugees and others who have deficiency. He said nearly 250 pending files of DPs pertaining to PM package be cleared without more delay.
Capt Yudhvir Singh further demanded that 12 seats be allotted to the DPs from PoJK in the J&K Assembly as per their population. Migrated KPs having much less population have been provided two seats. If not 24, at least 12 seats be provided to PoJK DPs. Refugees from Chhamb, settled in Pargwal area with hard work had cultivated lands along the bank of Chenab river. Under Roshni Act they were allotted lands prepared by them with hard work but the same have now been snatched by the Government. The government by taking lenient view should restore those lands to them. He also demanded ST status for the DPs from PoJK.
Capt Chib said their delegation recently met BJP MP Jugal Kishore Sharma and requested him to take up their issues with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Modi.
Prominent among those who accompanied Capt Chib included JP Sharma, Kuldeep Singh Chib, Kulbir Singh Chib, Sakandya Devi (I/C Mahila Wing), Kehar Singh, Master Raghunath Singh, Ch Rattan Lal and others.
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