Jammu, Oct 30 (Inditop.com) A big employment package is in the offing for displaced Kashmiri Pandits, as the first step to resettle the migrants in their homes in the valley, officials said Friday.
As many as 3,000 jobs would be given to the unemployed Kashmiri Pandit youths, willing to serve in the Kashmir Valley, according to official sources.
“It has been approved and would be announced soon,” a minister, privy to the government decision, told Inditop, pleading not to be named.
This is the first part of the two-phase employment package for Kashmiri Pandit youths, as per the prime minister’s Rs.1,600 crore relief and rehabilitation package for Kashmiri Pandits, who fled the valley in 1990, fearing persecution by militants after a spate of select killings.
After fleeing the valley, more than 350,000 Kashmiri Pandits had settled in Hindu-dominated parts of Jammu region of the state, and outside in other towns and cities of the country, including Delhi.
As per the official records, 18,000 Kashmiri Pandits have registered themselves for return to the valley under the PM’s package, which offers them Rs.7.5 lakh per family for reconstructing their houses. They are also entitled to an interest-free loan for rejuvenating their orchards and fields, lying untended for years.
