Jammu, Jan 11: A deputation of Jammu and Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC), under the leadership of its President S Gurdev Singh, met Ashok Koul, General Secretary (Organisation) Jammu and Kashmir BJP here and submitted a memorandum containing their grievances/demands and sought help in solving the same.
According to a press note, through the memorandum, the deputation mentioned that the problems being faced by the Displaced Persons (DPs) of 1947 from Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) even after a lapse of 70 years have not been redressed. “They informed that after migration in 1947, the DPs were placed in different camps at Nagrota and other parts of Jammu region. After remaining in camps for three years, their dispersal was made by the government during 1950-1951 and were resettled in different colonies as per the availability of state/evacuee land in the most haphazard manner. With the passage of time the DPs slowly raised pucca structures for their personal dwelling on the land under their possession in the colonies, which have already been regularized,” the press note added.
They further said that it is a hard fact that the government conferred proprietary rights to DPs on state land through govt. order 254-C of 1965 as well as occupancy tenancy rights granted to DPs over allotted Evacuee lands vide Section 3-A of the Agrarian Form Act of 1976.