India Fails to Entice Kashmiri Pandits & Their Families
The rehabilitation office is offering domicile certificates to former residents who, or their ancestors, moved out decades ago
The office of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner is endeavoring for the resettlement of Kashmiri Pandits and their families in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) by organizing special camps but to no avail.
They are offering domicile certificates to former residents who, or their ancestors, moved out decades ago.
Back in the 1980s when the militancy began, the occupied state witnessed a large-scale exodus of the migrant Pandit community.
In this regard, nearly 25,000 unregistered Kashmiri Pandit families are estimated to have settled in Delhi before 1989.
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The rehabilitation office is going to accept applications in these special camps which are established at different places where a minimum of 50 such families are residing.
In the latest development, the administration has extended the scheme till May 15, 2022.
However, the J&K Government’s Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction responded that there won’t be any further extensions, citing poor response.
According to officials, out of all unregistered families, only 3,000 of them turned up to take application forms but only 806 registered units were issued domicile certificates on the spot.
Relief Commissioner, Ashok Pandita, said that the applications of the remaining 2,200 families along with supporting documents were to be brought to Jammu for further action.
The officials said nearly 45,000 Kashmiri Pandit families are registered with the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner (Migrants).
In which, 41,119 Hindu and Sikh families are believed to have migrated from Kashmir occupied by Pakistan in 1947.
