Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 24: Displaced Persons from Pak occupied Jammu and Kashmir today held protest demonstration, projecting their demands of providing full package and 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. More over, 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.
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 also demanded that pending files of DPs’ pertaining to PM package be cleared without more delay. He however, extended gratitude to government for giving extension in package period.
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 than PoJK DPs have been provided two seats. If not 24, at least 12 seats be provided to PoJK DPs, he asserted. He also demanded ST status for the DPs from PoJK.
Several prominent members of the organisation including JP Sharma, KS Chib, Sakandya Devi, and others also spoke on the occasion.
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