Envoys to visit biggest Kashmir migrant camp in Jammu, interact with residents: Official

A team of 15 envoys including US Ambassador to India Kenneth I Juster, which reached here on Thursday on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, will also meet and interact with residents of Kashmiri migrant camp at Jagati on outskirts of the city.

The envoys' team, which reached Jammu from Srinagar on late Thursday evening, is also slated to be hosted later in the night by Lieutenant governor G C Murmu in a dinner meeting at Hotel Radisson, where the team would be staying tonight.

"The team of envoys will visit Jagat Migrant camp after 1200 hours Friday. They will interact with Kashmir Pandit migrants at the camp," a senior official told PTI.

During the visit, the team will be briefed by two displaced Kashmiri Pandit members including a female member.

The State government has built 4,218 two-room flats at Jagti in Nagrota area of Jammu for those Kashmiri Pandit migrants who are living in one-room dwellings provided to them and was provided to displaced families in 2010.

Soon after the arrival in Jammu, the team checked in hotel Radisson Blu amid tight security and are being hosted a reception by Lt Governor G C Murmu here.