STATE TIMES NEWS
SAMBA: In a series of meetings of Displaced persons of 1947 from POK held at village Abtal, Phalri, Nanga & Palouta of Tehsil Ramgarh, Distt. Samba wherein Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) made an appeal to Manoj K. Sinha, LG to take cognizance of the issue and impress upon the MHA to extend the one time settlement scheme of Rs 5.5 Lakhs upto March ending 2023 as the same has been closed by GOI vide order no. 15030/99/2020 dated Feb 22, 2022.
Gurdev Singh President along with Bhagwan Singh, Capt. Puran Singh Chib, Joginder Lal, Dayal Singh Sarpanch and Tarsem Singh Chib express their serious concern regarding the closure of the scheme and term it as arbitrary, illogical issued without ascertaining the factual position and without seeking the feedback from the concerned sub-ordinate office of UT govt. of J&K. The sudden and untimely closure of the scheme has deprived thousands of Jammu based bonafide families of 1947, 65 & 71 of the benefits of the relief scheme. Gurdev Singh said that the orders issued by the MHA is absolutely contrary to the couple of earlier statements made by Amit Shah, Home Minister wherein he assured time and again that benefits of ex-gratia scheme of Rs 5.5 Lakhs would be provided to all the bonafide DP families settled in Jammu and even including those who are settled in other parts of country.
He appealed to the Governor to take up the issue on priority with the central Govt. for the extension of the scheme upto March 2023 as well as implementation of Joint Parliamentary Committee report No. 183 and also defreezing of their share of seats out of 24 as per their population to empower the politically to represent the aspiration of their community which is their constitutional right being denied from the last seven decades.
