Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 2: A delegation of one of the apex bodies of displaced Kashmiri Pandit families, All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference (ASKPC) under the leadership of its president, Moti Lal Malla today met Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner ( Migrants ) RRCM, Dr. Arvind Karwani to present the outcome of their detailed discussion on addressing the immense difficulties being faced by the displaced Kashmiri Hindu community due to implementation of National Food Security Act (NFSA) to concerned higher authorities of both UT and Central Governments.
Members of ASKPC delegation explained with concrete examples the various genuine hardships being faced by both relief and non relief category of displaced Kashmiri Pandits spread all over the Globe due to their displacement since 1990, be at their temporary residences in Jammu and Kashmir or at various location all over the country or at different parts of the world.
In the national interests, accepting the introduction of NFSA by the will of Government, it ultimately dilutes the very internally displaced identity and migrant status of this community, who are forcibly living in exile in their own country. This exercise creates lot of difficulties in getting their meager entitlements flawlessly especially by the economically weaker sections and particularly for persons living outside Jammu and Kashmir in terms of getting their relief assistance, doing OTP verification, completing e KYC formalities and getting relief assistance. This lengthy documentation process and in ordinate authentication has ultimately converted this welfare oriented NFSA exercise in to highly stressful and practically difficult process for the survival of displaced community.
ASKPC through RRCM appealed to the concerned authorities of Jammu and Kashmir Government and to the Union Government to find the practically applicable solution to such hardships and address the ground level difficulties before implementing NFSA for displaced Kashmiri Hindu community.
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