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Jammu, March 4 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday inaugurated a township near this Jammu and Kashmir winter capital for hindu families who fled the Kashmir Valley due to terrorism.

Singh inaugurated the first phase of the township having 800 flats at Jagti.


The township, to be spread over 100 acres, will cost Rs.385 crore and will have 4,218 flats, hospital, schools, play fields and round-the-clock water and power supply.


The prime minister said the township will improve the living standards of the migrants.


Nearly 350,000 Kashmiri Pandits, as the hindu migrants are known, fled the valley in the early 1990s due to a terror campaign unleashed by separatist militants. Many of them have been living in congested migrant camps near Jammu.


The township for Kashmiri Pandits has evoked envy and resentment among other groups of refugees, particularly the ones from Pakistan-Administered Kashmir.


'It's sheer discrimination by the government of India. We have been living in slums for the past 63 years, and no one has taken care of us. Kashmiri migrants are being provided with ultra-modern homes and free rations,' said Rajiv Chuni, president of SOS International, an organization of the people who were affected by the invasion of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 and had to leave their homes on the Pakistani side of Kashmir.


PM inaugurates township for Kashmiri migrants
 
J&K: 4440 Kashmiri Pandit Families Applied for Return


Jammu and Kashmir government is working on a comprehensive return and rehabilitation policy of Kashmiri Pandit migrants in Kashmir Valley and 4,440 Pandit families have applied under this policy so far.

"The government is working on a comprehensive return policy of Kashmiri Pandit migrants. He said 4440 Pandit families have applied under this policy so far", Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation Raman Bhalla today said while replying to the discussion of demand for grants of the departments under his charge in Assembly.

He said the government has submitted a comprehensive one-time settlement package to the Centre for funding.

The Minister said that to create confidence among the community to return to Kashmir, the government advertised 3000 vacancies, out of which selections were made on 1790 and 1179 candidates have joined their postings at different locations of Kashmir Valley.

He said transit accommodations have been set up at many places in the Valley, out of which allotments have been made in respect of 1277 families and 570 have taken possession of the same.

He said free transport service is being provided to the members of the community to visit the Valley at times of festivals and holidays.


news.outlookindia.com | J&K: 4440 Kashmiri Pandit Families Applied for Return
 
About freaking time anyways , i hope they build more townships in Kashmir...it would benefit many very well!!
 

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