JKSAC discusses issues of refugees

Tribune News Service

Jammu, January 3

The Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) held a meeting of displaced persons of 1947 from the Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK) in Poonch town and demanded reservation for youths in technical and professional colleges in the UT.

The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Tarlok Singh Tara, president, JKSAC, district Poonch. He urged the UT administration to address the concerns of refugees who were suffering discrimination for the past several decades. State president Gurdev Singh asked the L-G GC Murmu to review the order issued in favour of a particular class of migrants by substituting a paragraph in Class-III of Rule-21 of the reservation rule, vide SRO-321, dated May 27, 2019.

The demands included compensation for their left-out properties in the PoJK, de-freezing of the Assembly seats of the displaced share and regularisation, mutation of land under displaced families.