Flats are being built for Kashmiri Pandits in the valley: 1500 flats out of 6 thousand ready, Manmohan’s plan got momentum in Modi government

The Manmohan Singh government had announced an employment package to resettle Pandits displaced from Kashmir in the valley. Now the Modi government has started this project at a faster pace by further strengthening it. Only jobs were available in Manmohan Singh government, now the government is also giving houses. Ganderbal falls on the way from Srinagar to Baltal. There is a plan to settle people who got jobs in the Prime Minister’s Development Package for Kashmiri Pandits in the covered campus. Under this project, there is a plan to settle the families of displaced Kashmiris at different places in the valley.

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PWD employee Abdul Majeed says that work is going on on 12 towers here. 5-6 towers are almost ready. By August, more than half the tower would be inhabited by people. Unlike Ganderbal, the pace of construction in other areas is not so fast. In Ganderbal itself, 12 towers are also proposed at a distance of about three km from here. Work started here just a week ago. According to the Union Home Ministry, only 17% of the proposed housing for Kashmiri Pandits has been completed since 2015. Under the Prime Minister’s Development Package announced in 2015, the central government had approved 3,000 government jobs for Kashmiri migrants.

So far 1,739 migrant Kashmiris have been given jobs. On this delay, a revenue department official says that it is the government’s top priority for the project. Another official says that it was a good idea with the intention of settling Kashmiri Pandits. In 2008, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had announced this unique employment package. Its purpose was to provide jobs to displaced Kashmiris in the valley around their area. Then out of 3,000 sanctioned posts in this package, 2,905 posts were filled.

After this, the Modi government announced about 6 thousand houses, which were to be provided jobs at a cost of 920 crores. Till February this year, only 1,025 houses could be partially or completed. Work has not even started on 50% of the units. This is the reason that the people who got employment under the Prime Minister’s package are facing the shortage of housing.

In many places, these employees have to stay in the residential complex. On the return of people from the scheme, Kashmiris here say that Kashmiri Pandits can never return by putting them in cages here and there. If you build a wall, how will it work, how can people live in cages and in panic.

Tender process for 2744 soon, people have come to 6 premises
According to the government, 1488 units are almost ready. Tender is being finalized for 2,744 units. Many Kashmiri migrants are living in existing transit residences at Vesu (Kulgam), Mattan (Anantnag), Hal (Pulwama), Natansa (Kupwara), Sheikhpora (Budgam) and Veerwan (Baramulla). It may be mentioned that there are 64,827 registered migrant families in Jammu and Kashmir. There are 60,489 Hindu families, 2,609 Muslim and 1,729 Sikh families.

main reason for delay

ICHRRF admits that Kashmiri Pandits were massacred
Washington-based International Commission for Human Rights and Religious Freedom (ICHRRF) has termed the atrocities on Kashmiri Pandits as ‘genocide’. The culprits involved in this have been demanded to be punished. The ICHR said there was ethnic and cultural genocide in 1989-90.

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