JAMMU, Jun 15: “Now we have been reconnected to our roots”, says Anil Mahajan, who’s among the many over 21,000 displaced folks from Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) given a brand new domicile certificates mentioning the place they initially belonged to.The certificates carries the identify of the “unique place of residence” in PoJK from the place their relations had migrated through the Partition in 1947, stated officers within the Jammu and Kashmir administration that’s issuing the doc.“Now we have been reconnected to our roots. It is vitally emotional,” stated Mahajan, whose domicile certificates mentions the Mirpur space in PoJK as his unique place of residence. “All people in my household has received one. They took our particulars and supplied us with the domicile certificates. It’s actually very encouraging”, he stated over cellphone from Chandigarh the place he presently lives.The certificates, the officers stated, is completely for individuals who have been displaced from areas of Jammu and Kashmir which can be underneath the unlawful occupation of Pakistan. In 1947, they migrated to totally different elements of India, together with Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.“It’s an emotional second for the folks belonging to PoJK that they’ve a domicile certificates issued by the Jammu and Kashmir administration with the place of birth in PoJK written as residential locations,” SoS Worldwide chairperson Rajiv Chunni informed PTI right here.A number of displaced folks belonging to PoJK have gotten these certificates with the place of domicile talked about as their post-migration residential tackle, he stated.Mahajan, who owns an IT agency in Delhi and received the certificates lately, stated it provides a “feeling of belongingness”.Jaipur-resident Ashwani Kumar’s certificates mentions his unique place of residence as Siyak in PoJK and all 12 members of his household have obtained the doc.“We’re very joyful to get this domicile certificates from the Jammu and Kashmir administration with our place of place of birth written as place of domicile in it. That is the very first thing we’ve got received previously over 75 years from Jammu and Kashmir authorities,” Kumar, who heads an organisation ‘Kashmiri Welfare Society’ for displaced folks of PoJK in Rajasthan, stated.Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha had stated that over 21,000 domicile certificates have been issued by means of camps in Delhi, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand.In response to officers within the Reduction Commissioner’s Workplace-Jammu, 1.58 domicile certificates have been issued each to Kashmiri migrants and displaced folks of PoJK. Over 5,000 households of displaced folks of PoJK residing in numerous elements of India have been registered as displaced individuals with the reduction commissioner’s workplace in Jammu, they stated.Kashmiri migrants are those that left the Valley through the top of terrorism within the Nineteen Nineties Kumar stated that “as many as 165 households right here (Rajasthan) have gotten domicile certificates of Jammu and Kashmir. We urge the federal government to offer us reduction on the sample of displaced Kashmiri migrants. Now we have been given nothing”. (Companies)
