Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 7: PoJK DPs’ Front held protest demonstration here today to project their demands including reservation for their wards and stipend to non-camp DPs at par with Kashmir Pandits (KPs).
Amid slogans and carrying banners, large number of PoJK DPs assembled at Maharaja Hari Singh Park and demanded redressal of their long pending demands.
Capt Yudhvir Singh Chib president of the Front said that there are around 9600 families of 1947 and around 1600 families of 1971, who have not been registered yet and demanded their enlistment.
He demanded that DPs of 1947, 1965 and 1971 (non-camp) should be given ownership rights for landed properly, issuance of Actual Line of Control (ALC) certificate to the displaced families of 1947, 1965, who are staying in the vicinity of border areas in Jammu, Hiranagar. Kathua, Rajouri and Poonch districts, 15 per cent reservation for the wards of DPs in Colleges, Universities, Professional Colleges, Technical Colleges, IITs, etc on the pattern of Kashmiri Pandits in Central States.
Chib also demanded backward status for all DPs, stipend on the analogy of KPs to landless and house Less families of DPs of 1947, 1965 and 1971 (non-camp) and allotment of 10 marlas land, allotment of land at alternate places to those whose land have come under border fencing, mines field and in the construction of ditches, ex-gratia relief should be paid to DC Jammu for distribution among displaced families of DPs of 1971 (non-camp), a board for development of displaced persons of 1947, 1965 and 1971 (non-camp) DPs should be framed by the Government, rent of the DPs residing in custodian Department should be exempted and 24 seats of Assembly should be given to DPs of PoK.
He informed that the all the demands of PoK DPs have been forwarded to the Central Government by the State Government with recommendations but final package has not been prepared till yet.
Chib urged the Central as well as State Government to redress the plights of PoK DPs at the earliest.
Among others present were Jai Pal Sharma, general secretary, RP Singh, Kuldeep Singh, Sakandya Devi, President Women Wing, Kulbir Singh Chib, Sukhjinder Choudhary, Hari Singh, Rasal Singh, Pawan Slathia, Capt Sudesh Singh, Thoru Ram Chib, Babblu, Raj Kumar Verma, Ashwani Kumar, Master Kehar Singh, Kashmir Singh, Bimla Devi, Subedar Baldev Singh Chib, DySP Krishan Singh, Subedar Balwan Singh, etc.
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