Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 10: Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) has reiterated its demand for seeking the clarification of the notification/order issued by the Govt prescribing rules/procedures for grant of Domicile Certificate to the people of UT of J&K as the notification is silent about the 5300 DP families and other unregistered families settled outside the UT of J&K.
In a meeting held at Jammu today, Gurdev Singh president JKSAC along with Netar Parkash and Dwarka Nath Khajuria strongly condemned the Govt for its criminal silence over the issue and held the Govt responsible for humiliation being suffered by DPs settled outside UT of J&K on approaching the Commissioner R&R (Migrant) for their registration. He said that DPs settled outside has wrongly interpreted the assertion made by the Govt in the print media for the inclusion of DPs is quite contrary to the notification/order.
He said that the DPs settled outside must understand the contents of the notification before they approach Commissioner R&R (Migrant) for their registration. He said that DPs must assure themselves that there is no such directions from the Govt side as asserted by them in the Media, as nowhere mentioned in the rules/procedures that DPs from PoJK settled outside should approach the Commissioner R&R (Migrants) for registration.
While referring the Order No. 52-JK (DMRR) of 16-5-2020, he said, it says that “Any person who is registered as migrant by the R&R Commissioner in the UT of J&K shall be eligible to be treated as Domicile.” The order further says that “There maybe other bonafide persons, displaced persons or migrants and their descendents who are not registered with R&R Commissioner (Migrants) or being registered as Migrants with Govt elsewhere.”
He said that this order nowhere mentioned the displaced persons of 1947 from POJK as a category who are already registered with PRO Jammu being a registering authority for DPs of 1947 and the Commissioner R&R (Migrants) is the registering authority for Kashmiri migrants. He said that rules defined under Order No. SO-166 dated 18-5-2020 defining J&K grant of Domicile certificate (Procedure/rules) 2020, definition of the terms used in the rules are given in Para (2), and the person eligible for the grant of Domicile certificate are given in Para (3). He said that both these paras nowhere mentioned that DPs being referred as a class of DPs of 1947 from POJK settled outside. Moreover, all the DPs of 1947 including 5300 families settled outside are already registered with PRO Jammu and all the process concerning their rehabilitation is looked after by PRO Jammu.
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