Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 9: Jammu and Kshmir Pradesh Congress has requested the Lt Governor of J&K UT for immediate review and recall of recent notice of the Government closing the relief package to refugees of 1947, 1965, 1971 from 10th February onwards.
On behalf of the Congress party, PCC chief Spokesperson and former MLC Ravinder Sharma has written a letter to the LG bringing to his notice that the decision of the Government closing the ongoing relief package to refuges of 1947, 1965, 1971 is injustice with them and it is clear betrayal and backtracking of the promises with them by the Modi Government and BJP.
“The package was not only endorsed by the All Party Joint Parliamentary Committee but also enhanced the relief amount to Rs 30 lakh per family. Only a meager amount of Rs 5.5 lakhs was sanctioned but that too has not been disbursed to all eligible families because of various hardships in the procedure and documentations for them. There are several hundred claimants pending and large number of others still deprived of the ongoing relief package, because of certain requirements of old record of migration etc,” reads the letter, requesting that the ongoing disbursement process of Rs.5.5 be continued till all the eligible families are covered.
In the letter, the Lt Governor has also been requested that the matter of full package of Rs 30 lakh along with other components may kindly be taken up with the Central Government without further delay.
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