Srinagar, Jan 08: The All India Kashmiri Samaj (AIKS) held its Core Committee meeting and expressed its grave concern over the public notice issued by the Relief & Rehabilitation Commissioner (M), Jammu, recently.
The public notice, published in a local newspaper, has created confusion and distress in the community about the impact that the contents of the notice will have on the displaced community members, a statement issued to INS reads.
The public notice “Integration of Migrant Ration Cards into the NFSA (National Food Security Act) Database” mentions the benefits of various government schemes. However, the benefits are neither defined nor explained, which has created anxiety among the displaced community, it added.
“As was explained in the meeting, the referred notice conveys benefits like those accruing to Antyodaya Yojna Families and households without shelter. The Government of Jammu and Kashmir does not mention Kashmir Migrants in the National Food Security Act of 2013, nor does it include them in any footnote,” it added.
Calling the displaced persons of Kashmir as migrants depicts the insensitivity of the powers in the governance.
It is pertinent to mention that the displaced community has faced uncertainty over the last 35 years of such notifications, which do not detail the schemes’ purpose and benefits to the displaced.
It’s, therefore, a relevant question to be asked to the committee that is supposed to comply with the act, ‘ Where will the displaced community get the benefits of the notice mentioned above, without their permanent settlement in the valley?”
It is this lacuna that is troubling the displaced KP migrants.
The president and members of AIKS appealed to the Chief Secretary (Member State Food Commission of J&K) and Secretary of the Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation & Reconstruction, Jammu and Kashmir, to address the community’s apprehensions regarding the public notice issued by; the Relief & Rehabilitation Commissioners (M) Jammu, at the earliest to allay the suspicions the displaced migrants that this notice has created.
