3,000 more jobs for Kashmiri Pandits soon
Tuesday September 13, 2011 05:53:29 PM,
IANS
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Jammu: Jammu and
Kashmir will advertise 3,000 more jobs for displaced Kashmiri Pandits as part of a package announced by Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh in which 6,000 people were promised employment in the
valley.
The state government has already filled 3,000 posts, employing
displaced Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir Valley, the original
home of the community from where they had fled in 1990s fear of
persecution by militants.
Official sources told IANS that the government is "serious" about
the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits, a little over 300,000 of
whom have settled in Jammu and other towns and cities of the
country.
The government will advertise and recruit 3,000 more Kashmiri
Pandits for jobs in Kashmir, in addition to those already employed
there in the past one year.
Singh had announced the package in April 2008.
Besides jobs, they are getting Rs.5,000 in relief per month, free
accommodation and ration. They have also been promised Rs.7.50
lakh for construction of their houses, which they left 20 years
ago.
But the community leaders, according to the official sources, are
asking for Rs.20 lakh and enhancement of relief amount from
Rs.5,000 to Rs.8,000 per family.
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