Pakistan-sponsored terrorism compelled 64,827 Kashmiri Pandit households to go away the Kashmir valley within the early Nineties and settle in Jammu, Delhi, and another elements of the nation, authorities has mentioned.
According to the annual report of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for 2020-21, as many as 14,091 civilians and 5,356 safety power personnel misplaced their lives to militancy in Jammu and Kashmir between the Nineties, when militancy first reared its head within the valley, and 2020.
“Militancy in Jammu and Kashmir is intricately linked with infiltration of terrorists from across the border,” the report mentioned.
Besides Kashmiri Pandits, militancy compelled some Sikh and Muslim households too emigrate from Kashmir Valley to Jammu, Delhi, and different elements of the nation, it mentioned.
Nearly 1,054 households from the hilly areas of Jammu migrated to Jammu plains, it mentioned.
As per the data of registration out there with the Relief and Migrant Commissioner, J&Okay, at current 43,618 registered Kashmiri migrant households are settled in Jammu, 19,338 households are settled in Delhi and NCR, and 1,995 households in a couple of different states and the UTs within the nation, the report mentioned.
With a view to resettle Kashmiri migrants within the valley, the MHA has authorised 3,000 jobs within the J&Okay authorities underneath Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Package – 2008, and a further 3,000 jobs underneath the Prime Minister’s Development Package – 2015 (PMDP-2015).
To home these 6,000 Kashmiri migrant workers within the valley, building of 6,000 transit lodging at an outlay of Rs 920 crore has additionally been authorised by the MHA.
Under the scheme, 1,025 flats have been accomplished or “substantially completed” and 1,488 are underneath building.
The report mentioned {that a} complete of two,546 terror incidents sponsored by Pakistan befell in Jammu and Kashmir from 2014 to 2020, through which 481 safety personnel, 215 civilians, and 1,216 terrorists had been killed.
There had been 1,776 infiltration makes an attempt from throughout the border to Jammu and Kashmir between 2014 and 2020, of which 685 had been profitable.
The annual report mentioned underneath the PMDP-2015, monetary help of Rs 5.50 lakh can be being disbursed to the 36,384 households which had been displaced from Pakistan-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), Chhamb, and Niabat and had settled in Jammu and Kashmir.
The central authorities has authorised the same monetary help for inclusion of these Displaced Persons (DP) households. Out of the 5,300 DP households of PoJK, 1,947 initially had opted to maneuver outdoors the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, however later returned and settled there.
A complete of Rs 1,371.13 crore has been disbursed to 31,670 beneficiaries until December 31, 2020.
Financial help of Rs 5.5 lakh per household has additionally been authorised by the federal government of India with an outlay of Rs 317.02 crore for five,764 households of West Pakistan Refugees (WPRs), who had migrated from a number of areas of West Pakistan within the aftermath of the partition of 1947 and settled in numerous elements of the Jammu area, the report mentioned.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”