Remove Bottlenecks in Providing Housing to Kashmiri Migrants, Parl Panel Tells Home Ministry
2 years, 9 months ago

Remove Bottlenecks in Providing Housing to Kashmiri Migrants, Parl Panel Tells Home Ministry

News 18  

The parliamentary committee on home affairs has asked the ministry to speed up infrastructural work to rehabilitate Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir, and remove bottlenecks in the work to accommodate 6,000 Kashmiri migrants. According to the home ministry, the J&K government has reported that due to the onset of militancy in Kashmir valley in the 1990s, nearly 64,951 registered Kashmiri migrants are currently residing in the Union Territory and elsewhere in the country. The home ministry also told the committee that 3,000 state government jobs have been created for the Kashmiri migrants under the Prime Minister’s Development Package-2015 at an outlay of Rs 1,080 crore. A monthly cash relief of Rs 3,250 to the registered Kashmiri migrants with the ceiling of Rs 13,000 per family; and monthly dry ration of 9 kg rice, 2 kg atta per head and 1 kg sugar per family have been provided, the MHA said.

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11 months, 1 week ago

Rehabilitate us in Kashmir, evict encroachers from our properties; Kashmiri Pandits to LG

Hindustan Times  

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1 year, 7 months ago

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News 18  

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has inaugurated newly constructed 576 residential flats at Baramulla, Bandipora, Ganderbal and Shopian districts, to ensure the safety and security of migrant Kashmiri Pandits employed under the Prime Minister Development Package. The administration had to speed up the construction of these flats after terrorists started targeting Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley last year. The PM …

Work underway on 6,000 homes, govt jobs for Kashmiri Pandits, says J&K L-G Manoj Sinha
1 year, 11 months ago

Work underway on 6,000 homes, govt jobs for Kashmiri Pandits, says J&K L-G Manoj Sinha

India TV News  

Kashmiri Pandits rehabilitation: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said on Monday that work was in progress on construction of 6,000 houses for the Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir valley where an equal number of government jobs was being provided to the displaced community under the Prime Ministers special rehabilitation programme. Participating in Idea Exchange event of the Indian Express, the Jammu …

Over 2,000 Kashmiri Migrants Returned to J&K to Take Up Jobs Since Repeal of Article 370: Govt in Parliament
2 years, 8 months ago

Over 2,000 Kashmiri Migrants Returned to J&K to Take Up Jobs Since Repeal of Article 370: Govt in Parliament

News 18  

Around 2,105 Kashmiri migrants have returned to Jammu and Kashmir since the repeal of Article 370 to take up jobs provided under the Prime Minister’s Development Package, the home ministry told Parliament on Wednesday. These include a robust security and intelligence grid, group security in the form of static guards, day and night area domination, round-the-clock checking at nakas, patrolling …

DC Edit | What government owes Kashmir migrants
2 years, 9 months ago

DC Edit | What government owes Kashmir migrants

Deccan Chronicle  

Reports that only 1,025 or 17 per cent of the 6,000 transit homes the Narendra Modi-led Union government had in 2015 promised to build for the Kashmiri migrants, including the Kashmiri Pandits, are completed, reflect the lethargy with which the Indian State approaches the issue of people who have been made homeless in their own land. The Rs 920-crore transit …

3,841 Kashmiri Pandits have returned to the valley in recent years: Reports
3 years, 4 months ago

3,841 Kashmiri Pandits have returned to the valley in recent years: Reports

Op India  

The Ministry of Home Affairs has confirmed that 3,841 Kashmiri Pandits have returned to Kashmir in the last few years and have taken up jobs there under the PM’s Rehabilitation Scheme, as they are feeling more secure after the Abrogation of Article 370. For the uninitiated, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s package for Jammu and Kashmir, over 30,000 Kashmiri Pandits …

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