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| Curtailment of sugar for KP relief holders ironical! | | | S K Kaw
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 5 :Instead of providing some sops to under privileged Kashmiri migrant relief holders who have been facing brunt of migration for the last three decades are supposed to get free monthly ration without sugar from the month of October 2019 onwards for unknown reasons which they term as irony on the part of Government.
Various Kashmiri Migrant organizations and social activists of the community have expressed deep anguish and concern over this unwise decision of Government which they demand should be rolled back immediately otherwise they will be having no alternative other than to take on the streets and stage protests against the unwanted decision.
Relief holder Kashmiri Pandit migrants and their families were dependent on government aid and they were given free ration and cash assistance on monthly basis right from the beginning of migration in 1989-90.
The relief includes 9 kgs rice, 2 kg flour per head and 1kg sugar per family besides a cash assistance of Rs 3250 per person and Rs 13000 to a family of four persons or above on monthly basis.
Facing the brunt of migration the community as a whole has seen the testing times in general, the relief holders remained dependent upon the Government relief and side by side doing tiny jobs in unorganized private sector of Jammu could help to keep them and their families surviving but the chances of their bright future were still bleak as there was no rehabilitation plan , proposal or any government scheme for this community in the corridors of power till date.
While gathering the views about this government decision from the community members ,this reporter learnt that people were pinning high hopes in BJP government for the betterment of their living conditions and life style that too when J&Kstate has became a union territory ,yet curtailment of sugar from the ration was a set back to the return and rehabilitation of KPs because the community seems to be out of the consideration of the Government.
Meanwhile social activist Sunil Pandita while talking to EarlyTimes lambasted the authorities for their pathetic approach towards the gullible Kashmiri Migrants who have been facing brunt of migration since years,adding the community fears that there may be a complete denial of monthly ration to migrants in near future on the part of Government. |
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