Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 29: Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) members have said that Prime Minister’s Rs 2000 package announced recently acknowledges the legitimate demand for compensation.
In a meeting of the SAC members held at Brij Nagar, on RS Pura Road Jammu lauded the announcement made again by PM for Rs 2000 crore package for DP’s of 1947 from PoK which has acknowledged the legitimacy of demand of DP’s for compensation for their left out properties in PoK and also asked the Ministry of Home Affairs to submit the package for sanction and get the funds released for early disbursement to beneficiaries.
While addressing the meeting Gurdev Singh, president JKSAC said that though this package is just a peanut as compared to their lost of lives and properties and sufferings they have gone through from the last 70 years, yet this package has acknowledged the legitimacy of their long awaited demand and now, it is a mandatory on the part of Govt to prepare a comprehensive roadmap to resolve the issue in one go instead of piece meals taking into consideration all the problems pertaining to both State and Central Govt. He said that DP’s are still confused that despite several representations and meeting with Govt high ups, the shape and nature of the package has not been clarified yet. The most important component of the package of reservation for the wards of DP’s recommended by Omar Abdullah Govt as well as by JPC is missing.
Mr Singh regretted how the Govt has identified only 26,319 families to be benefited under this package when no such exercise till date has ever been made by the Govt. It is pertinent to mention here that despite of repeated requests made from the last 7 decades no registration of DPs have been made by either of the Govts. The figure of 26,319 DP families of PoK have been taken from the previous package submitted by Omar Abdullah Govt to the Central Govt on October 20,2014 and was returned by MHA on November 7, 2014 raising the query to justify that how the bonafide 5,300 families of DP’s who have also availed the benefit of ex-gratia grant provided by GoI 1962 and other benefits have been left out of the package.
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