Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 29: The Displaced Persons from Pak occupied Jammu and Kashmir today held protest demonstration, projecting their demand of allotment of 10 marla land retrieved from illegal occupants recently and provide 12 Assembly seats to the DPs from PoJK.
A large number of displaced persons, under the banner of PoJK DPs’ Front 1947, 1965 and 1971 and (Non Camp) led by its president, Capt (Retd) Yudhvir Singh Chib assembled at Maharaja Hari Singh Park in Jammu today and started protest demonstration. They were demanding that DPs be given compensation @ Rs 30 lakh per family as recommended by the JPC. They extended gratitude to the Modi Govt for providing Rs 5.5 lakh per family but maintained that it was just one installment of the total package, recommended by JPC. Remaining amount of Rs 24.5 lakhs should also be released, they demanded.
The DPs lauded the JKUT administration and Union Government for retrieving thousands Kanals of land from the land encroachers in Jammu and Kashmir who had illegally occupied these Government lands. They said that 10 marla land/plots be allotted to the PoJK DPs and other refugees. Land should also be allotted to non-camp refugees, they demanded.
Capt Yudhvir Singh demanded that out of the 24 seats kept for the PoJK area, 12 seats be allotted to the DPs from PoJK in the J&K Assembly. Refugees from Chhamb, settled in Pargwal area with hard work had cultivated lands along the bank of Chenab river. Under Roshni Act they were allotted lands prepared by them with hard work but the same have now been snatched by the Government. The Government by taking lenient view should restore those lands to them. He also demanded ST staus for the DPs from PoJK.
Chib said that they met the senior BJP leaders- Devinder Singh Rana and Surjit Singh Slathia recently and took up the issues of the DPs with them. They have assured to take up these issues of the DPs with the Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha and the Union Government.
Prominent among those who were present during protest included JP Sharma, Kuldeep Singh Chib, Kulbir Singh, Sakandya Devi ( I/C Mahila Wing), Sudesh Rani, Rani Devi, Kehar Singhm, Kamal Sharma and others.
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