Union Home Ministry’s annual report
Union Home Ministry’s latest annual report released on Tuesday said that Pakistan-sponsored terrorism forced 64,827 Kashmiri Pandit families to leave the Kashmir valley in the early 1990s and settle in Jammu, Delhi, and some other parts of the country. According to the annual report of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for 2020-21, as many as 14,091 civilians and 5,356 security force personnel lost their lives to militancy in Jammu and Kashmir from 1990 to 2021.
“Militancy in Jammu and Kashmir is intricately linked with infiltration of terrorists from across the border,” the report said. Besides Kashmiri Pandits, militancy forced some Sikh and Muslim families too to migrate from Kashmir valley to Jammu, Delhi, and other parts of the country, it said, adding that nearly 1,054 families from the hilly areas of Jammu migrated to Jammu plains.
As per the records of registration available with the Relief and Migrant Commissioner, J&K, at present 43,618 registered Kashmiri migrant families are settled in Jammu, 19,338 families are settled in Delhi and NCR, and 1,995 families in a few other states and the UTs in the country, the report said. With a view to resettling Kashmiri migrants in the valley, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has approved 3,000 jobs in the J&K Government under Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Package – 2008, and an additional 3,000 jobs under the Prime Minister’s Development Package – 2015 (PMDP-2015).
To house these 6,000 Kashmiri migrant employees in the valley, the construction of 6,000 transit accommodations at an outlay of Rs.920 crore has also been approved by the MHA. Under the scheme, 1,025 flats have been completed or “substantially completed” and 1,488 are under construction. The report said that a total of 2,546 terror incidents sponsored by Pakistan took place in Jammu and Kashmir from 2014 to 2020, in which 481 security personnel, 215 civilians, and 1,216 terrorists were killed.
There were 1,776 infiltration attempts from across the border to Jammu and Kashmir between 2014 and 2020, of which 685 were successful. The annual report said under the PMDP-2015, financial assistance of Rs.5.50 lakh is also being disbursed to the 36,384 families which were displaced from Pakistan-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), Chhamb, and Niabat and had settled in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Central government has approved similar financial assistance for the inclusion of those Displaced Persons (DP) families. Out of the 5,300 DP families of PoJK, 1,947 initially had opted to move outside the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, but later returned and settled there. A total of Rs.1,371.13 crore has been disbursed to 31,670 beneficiaries till December 31, 2020.
Financial assistance of Rs.5.5 lakh per family has also been approved by the Government of India with an outlay of Rs.317.02 crore for 5,764 families of West Pakistan Refugees (WPRs), who had migrated from several areas of West Pakistan in the aftermath of the partition of 1947 and settled in different parts of the Jammu region, the report said.
[with PTI news agency inputs]
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