PoJK DP criticizes centre for neglect inaction on longstanding promises

GOI sleeping over other recommendations of the J&K cabinet and PSC: Chuni

JAMMU: The POJK DPs chairman Rajiv Chuni has said that despite fighting for the rights of displaced persons since the partition of India , the community is still deprived of its bonafide rights , though being assured by the central government from time to time.
Talking to The News Now , the PoJK chairman said that since the abrogation of Art 370, the central government has turned a nelson eye towards the claims of the displaced persons treating them as non-entities.
He said Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha led Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory administration has sabotaged the resettlement plan for Displaced Persons from Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) as the bureaucratic nexus in UT is overpowering and seems to be overriding Prime Minister Narendra Modi even.
J&K State Cabinet headed by Omar Abdullah in October 2014 proposed a financial package for PoJK DPs and sent it across to the Government of India, seeking approval for its implementation which included package promising Rs. 25 lacs per family, reservation in professional and technical colleges of the country for the wards of PoJK DPs and 8,500 government jobs for educated unemployed youths of PoJK DPs
“Modi government, instead of implementing this package, sent it to the Parliamentary Standing Committee for review,” Chuni said, adding, “Parliamentary Standing Committee in its 183rd report submitted to Parliament recommended Rs. 30 lacs per family instead of Rs. 25 lacs recommended by the J&K State Cabinet. PSC also endorsed other components of the package recommended by the J & K State Cabinet.”
Subsequently, Chuni said, PM Modi on November 07, 2015 announced a Rs. 80 thousand crores package in Kashmir for J&K State that includes Rs. 2000 crores for PoJK DPs.
“When Rs. 2000 crores of rupees released in November 2016 it was clearly mentioned that this amount should be provided to PoJK DPs families within three months but after the lapse of 6 years only half of the PoJK DPs families got this relief,” he said.
“Now the Government has abruptly stopped the cash assistance scheme without providing to the rest of the families,” he added.
Chuni decried that “the Government of India was sleeping over other recommendations of the J&K cabinet and PSC. Even Rs. 5.5 lacs released instead of Rs. 25 lakh recommended by J&K State Cabinet and Rs. 30 lacs recommended by PSC.”
Commenting on a recent legislation brought in by the J&K government for identifying ‘Pahari Speaking People (PSP)’ in J&K, he said, “We qualify all the prerequisite conditions including clan, tribe and mother tongue, to qualify for the Pahari status. But the government is not issuing us a PSP Certificate.”
“The UT administration is hell-bent to ruin our community completely,” he said, stressing that the demands of the PoJK DPs including the issuance of PSP certificates, implementation of the relief package with simplified procedures, allotment of a minimum eight Assembly seats to PoJK DPs, reservation in professional and technical colleges of the country, employment package for educated unemployed youths to be met without any further delay.

Updated On 7/1/2024 1:24:43 AM