The Samikhsya Bureau
NEW DELHI: As per the report of Relief Office setup in 1990 by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, 44,167 Kashmiri Migrant families are registered who had to move from the valley since 1990 due to security concerns. Out of these, the count of registered Hindu Migrant families is 39,782.
Special Jobs for the Kashmiri migrant youth under the PM package has been an important component for the rehabilitation of Kashmiri migrants, Ministry of Home Affairs sources stated.
A total of nearly 3800 migrant candidates have returned to Kashmir in the last few years to take up the PM package jobs.
Post abrogation of Article 370, as many as 520 migrant candidates have returned to Kashmir for taking up the jobs that have been provided to them under the rehabilitation package.
Another nearly 2,000 migrant candidates are also likely to return under the same policy in the year 2021 on successful completion of the Selection process, the Ministry maintained.
The Government has devised policies for Return and Rehabilitation of Kashmiri Migrants, under the Prime Minister’s Packages in 2008 and 2015 for Return and Rehabilitation of Kashmiri Migrants to Kashmir Valley.
