Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 8: Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, BJP State spokesperson on Kashmir Affairs in a statement today appealed to the State Government to release the one-time settlement compensation of Rs five lakh and fifty thousand to all the displaced people of PoJK. He was interacting with a delegation of the PoJK displaced people at BJP Headquarters today. The delegation had visited the party office to apprise the leadership about the problems being faced by them regarding the receipt of the payment. The delegation comprised Jag Mohan Gupta, RC Gupta, Vidya Bhushan Gupta and KD Gupta all PoJK displaced persons of 1947.
Chrungoo said that refugees’ families numbering 460, whose cases were registered in Punjab or other places was initially settled by Government of India. All of them also filed claims after completing all the formalities including the presentation of the State Subject certificates, but their cases have not been considered merely on the ground that they were registered outside the State.
This group of families had come to the home State and settled at Jammu after building their houses on the land purchased by them. Some members of these families have also been doing service in different departments of the State Government and are now even State Government pensioners. They are the bonafide State subjects and are permanently settled at Jammu. Their first claim of Rs 3500 was also settled by the then Provincial Rehabilitation Officer, Jammu and they have also proof of the same whether it is Form A or the Nominal Roll as per the requirement for submission of the claims.
Chrungoo said that consequent upon the Government notice issued on February 17 in 2017 by the Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, many of the displaced persons of 1947 from PoJK filed their claims on the prescribed forms along with all the required documents in the office of the PRO, Jammu which were supervised by the authorities and found to be complete and fit for approval and were notified in the shape of approved lists, for disbursement of compensation in favour of head of each family. It is astonishing that the cases of the group of 460 have not been considered yet. This is highly discriminatory and speaks volumes about the high handedness of the current PRO, Jammu, the statement added. A copy of the memorandum submitted to the Advisor to Governor was also handed over by the delegation to the BJP leader.
Chrungoo appealed to the Governor’s administration to reconsider the BPL criteria afresh as the BPL families are determined on the basis of the survey done two decades ago. Moreover, the survey reports made at that time were loaded with political considerations.
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