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| No room for bickering over composite township for Pandits | | |
When on Friday a number of Kashmiri Pandits,including women, joined the JKLF sponsored protest rally against the plan for setting up a composite township for the displaced people in the valley indicated that a section of the microscopic minority not in tune with those who have been demanding a separate homeland for the displaced people within the valley or with those favouring establishment of separate clusters for those migrants who are keen to return to the valley.That a section of the Kashmiri Pandits was against their rehabilitation in composite township is further indicated by the outright rejection of the plan by Sunil Shakhdar,a former Chief of Delhi based Kashmir Samaj. Though Sunil has ceased to be a force to reckon with as far as the number of his followers and supporters are concerned his opposition to the composite township indicates that the displaced families are not unanimous either in supporting the separate township plan or for opposing the idea. However,if not anything else the very idea had triggered confusion and chaos in the political spectrum of Jammu and Kashmir.While the separatists had got an issue which has helped them to register their presence in Kashmir and the opposition National Conference having got an idea for hammering on the PDP.
Wether the confusion was created by the Union Home Ministry,which issued a statement claiming that Chief Minister,Mufti Mohd.Sayeed,had assured Rajnath Singh that the PDP led state Government will identify and acquire land for setting up a composite township for the displaced families within the valley,or the controversy was kicked up by the Mufti himself who,on the floor of the Assembly,denied that the Government had any plan to set up a separate composite township for the displaced people. He made it clear that the Government would initiate measures so that displaced families were able to resettle in the natives villages from where they had fled in the wake of the rise of Pakistan sponsored militancy.Well this is not the time to sort out the controversy.What is required is to make a number of assessments on the nature,mode and method of rehabilitation of the displaced families.
Let one take instance one.Chief Minister Mufti Mohd.Sayeed says that on their return displaced families would be rehabilitated in their native villages.What measures the state and the central Governments will take for facilitating rehabilitation of the displaced people in their villages ? This question has assumed added importance when majority of the displaced people have sold their immovable property, houses and land,years ago.In some cases houses and land belonging to the displaced people had been grabbed by the vested interest among the Muslims in Kashmir.There are a number of people whose houses were set on fire. This all indicates that majority of displaced people have lost their houses and land in their native villages. If it is so where shall the Government settle them?Instance two.Jews could carve out a separate homeland when their population was over 80 lakhs in the world in 1948 when Israel was established. Against this over 3.50 lakh pandits had migrated in 1990 and if the number of those who had migrated right from 1947 to 1986 the total figure could not cross 10 to 12 lakhs.And carving out a separate composite township or homeland may not be feasible.Instance three. It would be better for the state and the central Government to carry out a detailed survey to find out how many people belonging to the displaced community were ready to return to Kashmir? If it is done the Government will find out that not more than a few thousand migrants were ready to return to Kashmir.Hence this small number of Pandits could be rehabilitated in clusters built close to the summer capital and to some prominent towns like, Anantnag, Kulgam, Baramulla, Sopore and Budgam. Let the Government complete the survey and then discuss the I ssue with leaders of the Pandit community and with some prominent citizens among Kashmiri muslims.It would be better if the rehabilitation progaramme is made a people to people affair and not displaced people and Government exercise. |
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