Where is settlement package for refugees? J&K Cong asks BJP
Jammu/UNI: Questioning the BJP over settlement package for the refugees, senior Congress leader Ravinder Sharma in a statement here on Monday said that large number of people who have come from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir were still running from pillar to post to get the first installment even after five years of its announcement.
Mr Sharma stated that the BJP has maintained silence over its repeated promises for the grant of Rs 30 lakh per family as per recommendations of the Joint Parliamentary Committee.
He said that the displaced people of 1947 from PoK lost their near and dear ones and entire families wiped out in majority of cases.
"They lost their social, cultural and linguistic identity and have suffered immense loss which can't be compensated in any manner," he said, adding, "they were settled on agricultural lands and urban plots but most of them having deficiencies as per scale and large no of them without allotments in the absence of necessary documentations."
He asked the government to issue the data of the families who have received relief amount so far, which shall reflect the real picture.
The authorities reveal that no amount was made available since April 2019 onwards.
He appealed all refugees organizations and like-minded individuals to come in common platform to fight for the genuine demands of all categories of refugees and DPs and take them to logical conclusions.
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