Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 20: The Displaced Persons from Pak occupied Jammu and Kashmir today held protest demonstration projecting their demand of providing ST status being Paharis and release of Rs 24.5 lakh remaining PM Package amount out of Rs 30 lakh as recommended by JPC.
A large number of DPs under the banner of PoJK DPs’ Front 1947, 1965 and 1971 and (Non Camp) led by its president, Capt 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 JPC. They extended gratitude to the Modi Govt for providing Rs 5.5 lakh per family but maintained that it was just one installment of the total package/ amount recommended by JPC. Remaining amount of Rs 24.5 lakhs should also be released, they demanded.
They strongly demanded ST status being original Paharis and said that this Government has discriminated them. Moreover only one Assembly seat was reserved for them while two for KPs who are even less than one fourth of their number.
Chib lauded the JKUT administration for retrieving thousands Kanals of land from the land encroachers in J&K who had illegally occupied these Government lands. They said that the 10 marla land/plots be allotted to the PoJK DPs. Capt Yudhvir further demanded that out of the 24 seats kept for the PoJK area, 12 seats be allotted to the DPs from PoJK in the J&K Assembly.
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.
Prominent among those who joined included Kuldeep Singh Chib, JP Sharma, Kulbir Singh, Sakandya Devi (I/C Mahila Wing), Sudesh Rani, Kamal Sharma and others.
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