“As per the information given by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, the land of 610 applicants” [migrants] has been restored in the last five years,” said Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai
At least 610 Kashmiri Pandits were given their back Abandoned properties in Jammu and Kashmir After an explosion of insurgency there in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said in Rajya Sabha that 3,000 state government jobs were created for Kashmiri migrants under the Prime Minister’s Development Package-2015 (PMDP-2015) with an outlay of 1,080 crores.
Government of Jammu and Kashmir Under PMDP-2015, 1,739 migrants have been appointed and an additional 1,098 migrants have been selected.
“As per the information given by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, the land of 610 applicants” [migrants] have been restored in the last five years,” he said in a written reply to a question.
The minister said that under the Jammu and Kashmir Migrant Immovable Property (Protection, Protection and Prohibition of Distress Sale) Act, 1997, the District Magistrate (DM) of the concerned district in Jammu and Kashmir is the legal custodian of the immovable properties of the migrants.
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DM is empowered to take all steps for the protection and conservation of such properties.
“The government has taken several measures to bring back Kashmiri migrants to the Valley, including construction of 6,000 transit accommodation at an estimated cost of Rs 920 crore to provide accommodation to the Kashmiri migrants employed in the Kashmir Valley,” he said. .