Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 22: Various Kashmiri Pandit organizations have expressed their dismay over the Government’s confusing stand on permanent return and rehabilitation of exiled Pandits in their homeland in Kashmir Valley.
Sampooran Kashmir Sanghatthan (SKS) in a statement issued today asked LG Manoj Sinha to clarify the stand about mass rehabilitation of entire Kashmiri Pandit community.
General secretary, SKS, Bharat Kachroo said that KP community developed a doubt on policies of Government after recent interview of LG regarding rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits. Kachroo has raised strong objection on statement of LG for saying that only 6000 PM package jobs will end the migration and it will be the mode of rehabilitation in next one year. SKS while rejecting this termed it a joke with the exiled people whose roots are linked to Kashmir and its over 5000 year old civilization.
Vishwa Kashmiri Samaj (VKS) in a meeting held in Jammu while reacting to the statement of LG rejected the Government proposal of cluster accommodation for KPs in the Valley.
The VKS held a meeting under the chairmanship of Pintoo Ji. It reminded the LG that KPs are the real aborigines of Kashmir and are eagerly waiting for the return to Valley with dignity and honour on their own terms and conditions.
Government should not link PM employment package and their accommodation with the return of KPs, it said. In the year 2008 Government announced PM package and till date it utterly failed to absorb even 3000 employees and how Government claims that they have given 6000 employment to KPs which is totally baseless.
M K Yogi Working president NC said, that Government must pass Temples and Shrines Bill to safeguard and preserve the age old culture and tradition of KPs and GOI must sanction fifty thousand crore rupees for the repair and renovation of these temples and other Hindu religious places of importance in the Valley.
Chairman Reconciliation, Return and Rehabilitation of Migrants, Satish Mahaldar has also strongly condemned the statement of LG.
While reacting to LG’s statement he said “It is clear that the Government has not done any home work during these years and neither does it have a plan to facilitate the return of Pandits to the Valley. Almost six years have passed for the Modi-led Government, but no proposal has been made by the Government of India to return and rehabilitate the Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley”, he added.
A volunteer group of 419 Kashmiri Pandit families had been promised land and houses in Kashmir as part of the return and rehabilitation process, but nothing has been done in this regard, he said. The list had been submitted to the MOS, J&K Governor and the PMO, he added.
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