news details |
|
|
| Declare J&K Sikhs a minority community: SAD | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 11: Shrimoni Akali Dal (SAD-National), a frontline Sikh organization, has urged the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh to declare Sikhs community of Jammu and Kashmir a "minority community" and demanded a comprehensive relief package for the rehabilitation of the displaced persons from PoK in 1947, who are living in the state as refugees for last six decades.
Talking to the media persons here, Gurbachan Singh, president of the SAD (N) said that seven-member delegation of organization which called on the Prime Minister in Srinagar during his two-day-long visit to Jammu and Kashmir submitted a detailed memorandum regarding the problems being faced by the community in the state and need to provide them minority status.
The SAD chief further said that the delegation apprised the Prime Minister about the factual state of affairs and plight of over 30000 registered unfortunate Hindu and Sikh families who were displaced from occupied Kashmir in 1947 and continue to face the discrimination from the successive state governments.
He appealed the Prime Minister to pay attention and do justice with the displaced community once for all by providing 30 lakh per family as one time compensation for immovable and movable properties left behind in PoK besides employment package/reservation in jobs and professional institutes for wards of DPs.
He further informed, "The Prime Minister was also apprised of Rs. 49 crores transferred by Central Government to J&K in December 2008 for compensating the families displaced from PoK for deficiency of land. Nine crore were disbursed by the vested interests at their whims and fancies only for drawing political mileage and Rs. 40.00 crores remains to be disbursed."
Dayal Singh Wazir, general secretary requested the Prime Minister to get Sikhs declared as minority community so that benefits of being minority can be availed by them and reserve at least four seats in state legislatures for Sikhs.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
STOCK UPDATE |
|
|
 |
| BSE
Sensex |
 |
| NSE
Nifty |
|
|
| |
CRICKET UPDATE |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
