Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 28: All Migrant Camp Coordination Committee (AMCCC) today demanded that the interests of those orchardists be also kept in mind whose orchards met devastation due to 27 year long turmoil and whose fruit yielding trees were cut by the miscreants after the mass exodus of minorities from Valley in 1989-90.
In a statement issued here today, president AMCCC Desh Rattan said that government should also take steps to provide a helping hand to displaced orchardists whose land is intact but the trees have either been cut or have developed diseases due to lack of proper maintenance.
Rattan said that the displaced orchardists of Kashmir whose number is in thousands had appealed number of times since their displacement that the Government should provide incentives to them to revive their orchards or the Horticulture Department should take these orchards under its own control and look after them so that they can be saved from damage and the owners can also get some benefit from the yield. But no one in the government showed interest in this regard and the request was turned down.
K S Bedi vice president of the organization demanded that after the government announced a special package for orchardists for promotion of horticulture in State, the interests of migrant orchardists be also kept in mind and they should not be ignored under the package as has been done in other Central packages for Valley.
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