Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 27: Youth 4 Panun Kashmir strongly condemned the ongoing NFSA integration process imposed upon displaced Kashmiri Hindus, calling it a draconian and deeply insensitive exercise that trivializes the suffering of a genocide-displaced community.
In a statement issued here, today Y4PK said “What is being presented as a welfare reform is, in reality, a bureaucratic imposition riddled with anomalies, exclusions, and procedural indignities that reduce victims of ethnic cleansing into mere data points in a Government registry”. For over three decades, Kashmiri Pandits have lived in exile after being forcibly uprooted from their ancestral homeland, yet instead of addressing this reality with seriousness and dignity, the State appears intent on subsuming their distinct identity under generic welfare classifications. This is not reform-it is administrative erasure.
Digamber Raina, general secretary of Youth 4 PK, stated that reducing Kashmiri Pandit genocide victims to entries in a food security database is nothing short of a cruel joke, emphasizing that Kashmiri Hindus are not ordinary migrants seeking charity but victims of a historical and civilizational rupture, and any attempt to categorize them within routine welfare frameworks without safeguarding their distinct status reflects a complete lack of understanding of their trauma.
Rajesh Kachroo, organising secretary, added that the anomalies emerging from this process expose the callousness of the system, where displaced families are once again being forced into cycles of verification, documentation hurdles, and arbitrary exclusions, effectively being made to prove their victimhood repeatedly, which he termed as bureaucratic cruelty masquerading as governance.
Sahil Pandita, coordinator, Y4PK, further stated that the Government cannot hide behind technical language and administrative jargon to justify a flawed and insensitive policy, underscoring that welfare access cannot come at the cost of dignity, identity, and historical truth and that any integration which creates fear, uncertainty, or dilution of entitlements is fundamentally unacceptable and must be halted immediately.
Standing firmly with the overwhelming sentiments of the majority of the KP community, they demanded an immediate suspension of the current NFSA integration process, a comprehensive audit of all anomalies, and a clear, written assurance that the migrant status, relief entitlements, and identity of Kashmiri Pandit genocide victims will not be diluted under any circumstances.
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