| JTC-SKF protest continues, enters 208th day | | | 
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 13: The Jagti Tenement Committee (JTC) and Soan Kashmir Front (SKF) continued its protest sit-in on 208th day today near Lane No 8 of Jagti township under the leadership of JTC-SKF president Shadi Lal Pandita.
Addressing the protesters, Shadi Lal Pandita said that inflation has made life difficult for relief holders while there is hardly any respite for them, adding that the government should increase the monthly cash assistance of Kashmiri migrant relief holders from Rs 13,000 to Rs 25,000 as soon as possible. Pandita said that a package of at least 5,000 posts should be announced for those Kashmiri migrant youth who have matriculated with great difficulty due to deportation and poverty who do not appear in the merit lists. He said that the 5,000 posts for such unemployed youth should be announced as soon as possible so that the lives of such poor families of unemployed youth can be saved.
Pandita said that a government job should be given in those houses in which no educated unemployed youth has got a government employment till date.
He said that 50,000 families of Soan Kashmir Front and Jagti Tenement Committee are ready to return back to Kashmir valley provided that the government to meet our demands which included setting up three Satellite townships in the districts of Baramulla, Srinagar and Anantnag with all facilities, compensation for the losses to movable and immovable property should be given to each and every landlord @ Rs 1 crore as lump sum and KPs should be given political and minority status. The members who took part in the protest included Raj Kumar Tickoo unit president of Jagti JTC, Ravinder Koul, M L Razdan, Kamal Pandita, Vijay Bakshi, Ram Krishan, S L Kar, O N Raina, Rakesh Pandita, Charanjeet Singh, Gurdeep Singh, Ramesh Suri and several others. |
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