EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 25: Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) demanded early acceptance/implementation of Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Home Affairs Report No 183, which recommended payment of Rs 30 lakh as ex-gratia relief to each DP family of 1947 from POK, besides, as a component, till their claim for left-out property in PoK are registered for final assessment of compensation, pending from the last more than seven decades because of constitutional implications in respect of stand taken by GOI in international forums on PoK, an integral part of India, forcibly occupied by Pakistan. In its executive body’s meeting held at Jammu, Gurdev Singh, President along with Netar Parkash, Santosh Kumar Sharma and Dwarka Nath Khajuria while deliberating upon the issue said that DPs were demanding for the registration of claim for their moveable and immoveable properties left in PoK and its compensation thereof since their migration, having a legitimate right.
Gurdev Singh said that in view of consistent pressure of DPs with efforts of JKSAC, the GOI constituted a Parliamentary Committee in 1978 which submitted its report in 1980, recommending the genuineness of the issue and advised the govt to find adequate alternative for their rehabilitation, as the DP cannot be kept hanging till the liberation of PoK. Similarly many commissions & committees were constituted, particularly Wazir Commission, Wadhwa Committee, Justice Sagir Ahmed working group and Interculator Dalip Padgonkar Report all sided with the recommendation of said parliamentary committee’s report. In 2013, the GOI constituted Joint Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs under the chairmanship of Venkaiah Naidu, now Vice President of India and afterwards by P. Bhattacharya, senior MP Congress. After having detailed deliberation with representatives of erstwhile J&K govt. and ministry of Home affairs India, the committee strongly recommended that Rs 30 lakh ex-gratia relief maybe provided immediately to DPs besides other components. |
