PoJK refugees demand roadmap for settlement

Tribune News Service

Jammu, February 13

Refugees from Pakistan-occupied J&K (PoJK) has urged the UT Administration to prepare a separate comprehensive roadmap for the final settlement of displaced people living here.

The J&K Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) on Thursday said for decades, they had been denied relief by the successive governments and packages announced for them had not been implemented properly.

“We are the worst victims of the Kashmir conflict since 1947 and the government should settle our issues. Refugees have taken up the matter with the UT Administration, which was positively responded but we hope that a prompt action is taken,” said Gurdev Singh, JKSAC president.

The refugees are demanding adequate compensation for their left-out properties in PoJK, reservation in government jobs and employment package for refugee youth, compensation for remaining 5,000 families having deficiency in allotted land and mutation of land under personal dwellings of displaced people in different colonies.