'West Pak Refugees to get ration as per past practice'

The West Pak Refugees, who migrated during partition and settled in Jammu and Kashmir, shall continue to get ration as per the past precedence, an official spokesperson said today.
This was decided at a meeting held here under the chairmanship of Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh in which Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Choudhary Zulfkar Ali was also present.
Senior officers of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and other departments attended the meeting.
The meeting was informed that the total number of 19,960 West Pak Refugees are being provided rations and other related items which includes 2,199 families in 88 villages of Kathua, 2,051 in 75 villages of Bishnah, 1,096 families in 82 villages of Hiranagar, 3,348 families in 138 villages in RS Pura 1,632 families in 134 villages of Samba, 2,271 families in 95 villages of Akhnoor, 6,908 families in 322 villages of Jammu.

Similarly, 41 families are being provided ration in Udhampur, 08 families in Reasi and 5 families in Doda, respectively.
The meeting was also informed that the West Pak Refugees have never been barred from ration since 1947 and "the news item which had appeared in a section of media was totally baseless and misleading," an official spokesperson said.
The West Pak Refugees have been shifted to Jammu region after migration from westPakistan in 1947.