Over 41,000 Kashmiri migrant families in Jammu

More than 41,000 migrant families from Kashmir are registered in Jammu and over 21,000 such families in Delhi and other states, the J-K assembly was told today.
In a written reply in the legislative assembly, minister for Relief and Rehabilitation Basharat Bukhari said, "A total of 41,117 families that migrated from Kashmir Valley are registered as migrants in Jammu as per figures of year 2014".
Giving details he said, "Community wise breakup of these families for the year 2014 are, Hindu 37128, Muslim 2246, Sikhs 1738 and others five".
He said that Kashmiri migrant families registered in different states were getting assistance and other help from those states only.

"As per the inputs collected from these states approximately 21,333 families are registered at Delhi and other states," he said.
Under the Prime Minister package for the return and rehabilitation of the migrants, 6000 migrant youths are to be accommodated in the state government jobs and around 3000 supernumerary posts are also created, the minister said.

"2184 candidates have been selected against these advertised posts by different recruiting agencies and for the remaining vacant posts, the process of advertisement and subsequent selection is still in progress," he said.
The minister said that the rehabilitation package has received "poor response" from the migrants.

"For the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri migrants backs to the Valley of Kashmir, government of India and the state government sanctioned a rehabilitation package of Rs 1618.40 crores" he said.
"Due to poor response from the migrants, the package could not be implemented fully except in respect of two components of the package i.E., providing employment to the migrant youth and the construction of transit accommodation in the Valley," he said.
He said that the government felt that the existing package needs some changes and accordingly a revised package was formulated and has been submitted to the government of India after seeking approval of the state cabinet.

"Once approval of the revised package is received, migrant families will be asked to avail incentives available under the package for their return and rehabilitation in the Valley," he added.