Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 17: Displaced Persons from Pak occupied Jammu and Kashmir today held protest demonstration, projecting their demands of providing ST status 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 this morning and started protest demonstration. They were demanding that DPs be provided ST status on the pattern of Paharis, 12 Assembly seats be earmarked for the PoJK DPs and they should 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 that Rs 5.50 lakh per family was first installment of the PM package. Click here to watch video
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. They should also be paid Rs 2.5 lakh under PM Awas Yojna. 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.
Capt Yudhvir Singh stressed that for DPs having population of over 12 lakhs only one Assembly seat was reserved while KPs having population hardly two and half lakhs were provided two seats. Chib described this act as most unfair on the part of Union Govt and LG administration. He demanded that 12 seats be allotted to the DPs from PoJK in the J&K Assembly as per their population. He also demanded ST status for the DPs from PoJK.
Several prominent members of the organisation including JP Sharma, KS Chib, Sukhdev Singh, Sakandhya Devi and others also spoke on the occasion.
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