Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, Jan 29: The Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) has urged upon the Union Government to implement Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report without any more delay.
In a meeting of the JKSAC held at Chann Arorian in district Kathua today under the chairmanship of Gurdev Singh its president, the members strongly projected their issues. The participants in the meeting sought the implementation of Joint Parliamentary Committee’s Report of Home Affair having top priority for reservations for their wards in both the State and Central Govt services and educational institutions. The participants urged upon the Governor Satya Pal Malik to prepare a comprehensive roadmap to end their rehabilitation issues.
Singh said that this organization is in relentless struggle for the one time resolution of DPs issues for the last more than 50 years which is evident from the fact, that what DP are getting is outcome of this long struggle. He said that though Rs 5.5 lakhs per DP family is a small amount and certainly in no way match with the loss of lives and properties they have suffered, yet it has given some solace and respite to DPs and added that this package has acknowledged the legitimacy of their claim for compensation for their left out properties in PoK. The DPs have accepted this amount as a relief on the assurances of Raj Nath Singh and Dr Jatinder Singh Ministers in the Union Government, that the DPs would be adequately compensated. He appealed to DPs to focus their attention on Rs 30 lakhs as target per family as per the recommendation of JPC.
He further urged upon DPs to be well aware of their issues concerning their one time settlement viz-a-viz, adequate compensation for their left out properties, reservations for their wards both in State and Central and Govt services and educational institutions, compensation for the left out families having deficiency in the allotted lands, allotment of plots to the left-out urban DP family and mutation of lands under DP’s dwelling in different DP colonies.
Gurdev Singh further expressed his concern and condemned the authorities for making the in-ordinate delay in disbursement process and direct cash transfer in DP’s account. He said that even after lapse of 2 years hardly 15,000 beneficiaries out of 26,319 from PoK have received the cash relief. He regretted that relief has not been paid to the rest of the beneficiaries from the last more than 4 months despite of completion of verification of over 19,000 families by PRO Jammu.
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