Many obtain Aadhaar, voter, ration cards
*Pak can exploit immigrants for its agenda in J&K
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Dec 10: Authorities have identified four Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) who helped Rohingyas in Jammu and Kashmir while investigations revealed that 158 Myanmarese have succeeded in obtaining Aadhaar cards and eight in getting ration cards in the Jammu for permanently settling in the region.
As many as 38 Rohingya girls have married local youths in the Jammu region and 124 girls have tied the knot with local boys of the Kashmir valley to mix up with the local population.
“Issue of Rohingyas whose settlement in Jammu and Kashmir has become a major security threat can by exploited by some nations like Pakistan to further their destructive extremist agenda. Pakistan could use Rohingya sympathizers as couriers to further terrorist and separatist agenda in Jammu and Kashmir,” officials told the Excelsior.
They said the threat of Rohingyas getting radicalized through Social Media is not a distant possibility.
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As per the officials, many Rohingyas have acquired ration cards, voter cards, Aadhaar cards and Permanent Resident Certificates (PRCs) by illegal means to settle down permanently in Jammu and Kashmir with ulterior motives. Possibility of NGOs and certain other influential persons helping the Myanmarese in obtaining these certificates here is not ruled out.
Names of four NGOs have figured in helping Rohingyas here with both cash and kind. All of them are based in Kashmir.
Authorities have also detected that 61 Aadhaar cards have been issued to Rohingyas in the Jammu region and 97 in the Kashmir division while eight Rohingyas have also managed to get ration cards in their favour.
“Reports of Rohingya girls being illegal trafficked from Myanmar into Jammu and Kashmir for the purpose of marrying them with locals in lieu of money have also been received,” the officials said, adding that at least 38 Rohingya girls have married locals in the Jammu region while 124 Myanmarese women have tied the nuptial knot with local boys in Kashmir.
The marriages, the officials said, have intentionally been solemnized to facilitate settlement of Rohingyas so that they can mix up with local population and their families get adjusted here permanently without being doubted by the police.
Pointing out that the Rohingyas are being used as laborers at lesser wages than locals and are working in vital installations such as Railway Station Jammu, the officials said their presence at sensitive areas can become a security risk. However, security agencies are keeping strict surveillance over the Rohingyas.
“India is among the nations worst affect by terrorism. It has its serious demographic challenges. Presence of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Jammu and Kashmir is definitely a security risk,” the officials opined and asserted that some Rohingyas have already been found involved in criminal activities like drug peddling, rape, theft, cheating and forgery.
They said the immigration of Rohingyas into Jammu and Kashmir has been a live and dynamic process with some families moving out and others moving in. There are other families who keep on relocating within the territory of Jammu and Kashmir posing a challenge for the administration to keep a record of exact number of individual Rohingyas.
Sources, meanwhile, said that no water or power connections have been restored to the plots where the Rohingyas are putting up as they are being treated as illegal immigrants. No State in India where they are putting up provides them with legal connections, they added.
“Illegal migration of Rohingyas from Myanmar through West Bengal, Assam and other borders to the Jammu region is being done with a purpose. The NGOs and others facilitating migration of Rohingyas to Jammu not only want to settle them here but this has specific motive of changing demography of the region,” the officials said.
As reported exclusively by the Excelsior, police have launched major crackdown on Rohingyas in different parts of the City and lodged a number of First Information Reports (FIRs) against all those who have rented out their property to Myanmarese without tenant verification which has been made mandatory.
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