Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Feb 2 : A monthly meeting of Western Pakistani refugees under the leadership of Labba Ram Gandhi was held at Swankha Morh near here, today.
The problems being faced to Western Pakistani refugees were highlighted in the meeting. While interacting with the media persons Labha Ram Gandhi said that the issues of Western Pakistani refugees will be put up before the higher authorities by him soon.
He said the Central Government has announced the one time settlement relief which is being paid to the Western Pakistani refugees at par the DPs. of 1947, 1965 and 1971. He said that the administration of Jammu and Kashmir is unnecessarily delaying the process of distribution of compensation. He told that Additional Commissioner, Jammu has toured tehsil Hiranagar and he has issued the directions to the Revenue officials to collect the claim files from Western Pakistani refugees so that the compensation will be delivered to the beneficiaries.
Gandhi expressed the hoped that in other tehsils the process will be started very soon. He said that if the JK Government will delay the process then they have option of launching agitation. Other who were present included Sukhdev Manhas – vice president, Joginder Singh, Darshan Lal, Shakti Sharma, Jaswant Singh.
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