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| JKNPP demands provide ex-gratia, plots to border area sufferers of Pak shelling | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 1: Expressing immense shock over the loss of property and life caused by the persistent heavy mortar shelling and firing by Pakistan on the forward villages along the IB and LoC, leaders and workers of JKNPP staged protest demonstration and demanded provide ex-gratia, plots to border area sufferers of Pak shelling.
The protest led by Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and Yashpal Kundal State President Young Panthers at Exhibition Ground Jammu today. The angry protestors raised anti-Pak slogans and slammed the Central as well as the State govt. for their despicable apathy and gross failure to provide succour to the border residents of Jammu region as promised by both the governments.
Addressing the gathering, Harsh condemned Pakistan for pounding the forward villages all along the IB and LoC with heavy shelling and firing which had thrown the life of the people out of gear. He said that the border residents were living in horrifying atmosphere and the BJP partnered State government had paid no heed to their plight and miseries as of now.
Deeply anguished over the miserable plight of the border dwellers all along the IB and LoC in Jammu region, he expressed his resentment against the Central and State government's apathy for not providing any ex-gratia relief to the families and employment to next of kin of the persons killed during the terrifying shelling as promised by them.
He said that the Saffron leaders and the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir had been doling promises and assurances to the border residents time and again for their relief and rehabilitation but nothing tangible had been delivered so far.
He reiterated his demanded for an immediate allotment of 5 Marla of land for each family at safer zones, ex-gratia of Rs. 20 lacs each of the family of the person killed in Pak firing, Rs.5 lacs each to the family of the injured and employment for the next of kin of the deceased under the provisions of SRO 43 and adequate assessment based compensation for the loss of crops and cattle stock as relief and rehabilitation measures for the affected people living in the forward hamlets.
Yashpal Kundal raising voice in conformity with the genuine demands of the people living along the IB and LoC demanded provision of reservation besides other benefits and privileges for the border dwellers at par with the residents of ALC pertaining to government jobs etc.
He regretted that the tall pronouncement of the BJP for conducting Special Recruitment Drive had proven to be mere rhetoric. He demanded that the local youth residing in border areas should be absorbed under Special Recruitment drive for Police, Armed and Paramilitary forces without any delay.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion were Rajesh Padgotra, Gagan Pratap, Shyam Gorkha, Nirmal Kishore, Khajoor Singh, Kewal Krishan Sharma, Rakesh Sharma, Ashok Chouhan, Anil Rakwal, Uday veer besides others. |
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