Kashmiri Pandits can now reclaim their misplaced land in Kashmir

In a transfer to help Kashmiri Hindus to reclaim their misplaced lands within the valley, the Jammu and Kashmir administration, on Tuesday, launched a web based portal (http://jkmigrantrelief.nic.in). Using the portal, the Kashmiri Hindus can register complaints about misery sale, encroachment, or different grievances relating to property within the union territory.The resolution got here practically a month after the Jammu and Kashmir administration ordered the complete implementation of the Immovable Property Act for the Kashmiri Pandits. Earlier in August, Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha had ordered the complete implementation of the Immovable Property Act for Kashmiri Pandits.Read extra: Kashmiri Pandits have turn out to be the crux of presidency coverage on Kashmir with Amit Shah as Union Home MinisterHowever, as per the federal government sources, purposes filed on the portal can be addressed inside a sure time interval underneath the Public Services Guarantee Act, 2011 by the income authorities. The district magistrates must conduct surveys or subject verification of properties. After the surveys, the magistrates must inform all registers inside a interval of 15 days and submit a compliance report back to the divisional commissioner.“As per government data, 44,167 families are officially registered as Kashmiri migrant families. Those who are not registered as Kashmiri migrants but have fled from the Valley are also eligible to register their complaints on the portal,” stated a authorities official.The official additionally stated, “Following complaints that despite the provisions of the Act, little has been done by way of restoring rights or preventing distress sales, the government has decided to launch the portal to allow all those who migrated to lodge their complaints and these will be addressed in a time bound manner.”Any violation of the Act can be taken cognizance of by the district magistrates with well timed motion for eviction, custody, and restoration of such properties, he added.Agnishekhar, a author, poet and a member of Panun Kashmir, a bunch of Kashmiri Pandits, appreciated the transfer to launch the portal. He stated, “We have been demanding declaring the sale of all properties under distress and duress as null and void. This forceable sale of properties was also a form of genocide and it was the inability of the government that prevented it.”Exodus of Kashmiri PanditsThe darkish evening of January 19, 1990, witnessed horrifying eventualities when Kashmiri Muslims gathered in mosques throughout the valley, shouting anti-India,and anti-Pandit slogans. Hundreds of harmless Pandits have been tortured, killed, and raped. They started asking Hindus to both convert to Islam and be part of the separatists or depart their properties. In the aftermath of terrorism within the Valley, Kashmiri Hindus had no selection however to depart.And by the year-end, tens of hundreds of Hindus had migrated from the valley. As per the report by Jammu-Kashmir Study Centre, by March 1990, greater than 90 per cent of the Hindus residing within the Valley had left their properties.However, the federal government of Jammu and Kashmir had launched the Jammu and Kashmir Migrant Immovable Property (Preservation, Protection and Restraint on Distress Sale) Act in 1997. The act was launched to stop the misery sale of properties belonging to migrants.Now, with the launch of the portal, the federal government has made a laudable transfer as those that needed to depart their land then, can now reclaim the identical.