Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 25: Continuing their struggle for their rights the PoJK Refugees Front staged a massive demonstration in front of Press Club here today and protested against the callousness of the Government towards them.
A large number of PoJK refugees led by Rachpal Singh Chib the president of the Front assembled in front of Press Club here and staged a demonstration.
Raising slogans in support of their demands the protestors resolved to take the ongoing movement to its logical conclusion.
With banners and pla- cards in their hands, the protestors said that they feel cheated by successive Governments as for last over 65 years their problems have not been redressed and only false promises were made with the hapless refugees.
The refugees, while making a scathing attack on NC-Congress coalition alleged that they left the refugees in lurch.
They said as per the package the agriculture land was to be allotted to agriculture refugees without consideration of size and strength of the families and location of land. But the Government later made many amendments in the Cabinet order creating disparities between camp and non camp families.
They said some camp families were provided Rs 7000 as financial aid along with 96 kanals of Khushki land or 64 kanals of irrigated land. They were not provided any financial relief/aid and no ownership rights given on EP land.
They said the refugees of Chhamb (1965, 1971) were also allotted half of the scale of camp DPs of 1947. They said amount of financial aid also varied from family to family. No ownership rights were given to Chhamb refugees of 1965 and 1971.
They said that no reservation quota was provided to the wards of these refugees in professional education. Besides, no reservation quota was ever provided to the wards of any category of PoJK refugees, they added.
The Front leaders said that refugees were subjected to all sort of discrimination in the society as no employment package or monetary aid for starting the business was provided to them by the Government.
They said GoI after recommendations of National human Rights Commission sanctioned financial relief to the refugees in 2000 but the State Government did not implement all its four components.
They said Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs advised the State Government to submit a draft package of final settlement of PoJK refugees to Union Government but the State Government did not pay any heed to it.
The Front leaders while warning NC -Congress coalition said they will take all charges posed by the two parties head on and take their struggle to logical conclusion.
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