Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 22: While terming the rehabilitation package of flood victims recently recommended to the Government of India for funding as a slip-shod exercise done by the State Government and which needs further fine tuning and more comprehensive study, BJP State Spokesperson Lalit Moza (Adv.) today said that nevertheless after a total paralysis in the initial days of the floods, the State Government has done something and this is a matter of satisfaction.
Adverting to the suffering and the plight of the Kashmiri migrant traders and the victims whose dwellings were put to arson in the Valley by the miscreants, Moza demanded that they be also treated at par with the sufferers of the recent floods. The floods were a natural phenomenon and perhaps outcome of global climate change but the Kashmir migrants’ loss of trade and trade assets as also the dwelling houses that were torched in 1989 and onwards, were manmade and reflected the utter failure of the Government in enforcing rule of law.
He said it is high time that the Government should also rehabilitate Kashmiri migrant traders on the same lines also as they too not only lost trade goods but also their commercial premises and the Government has not till date taken note of their suffering.
Moza demanded all the benefits that the Government has proposed for the traders who have been affected by the recent floods should be extended to the Kashmiri migrant traders also. He further added that those migrants whose houses were torched in the Valley were sanctioned amounts not exceeding mere one lakh rupees as ex-gratia relief by the State Government and for unfathomable reasons only half of this paltry ex-gratia was actually paid. He demanded the rest amount with interest be also paid.
Moza further reminded the State government about the utterly tardy rehabilitation of the victims of Kishtwar communal riots and said that Government should vigorously activate itself and bring out the victims from a state of great hardship and penury.
He also demanded that the relief for the migrants should enhanced to ten thousand rupees keeping in view the rise in cost of living.
State Spokesperson & State Press Secretary Balbir Ram Rattan was also present in the press conference.
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