Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, April 26: Pakistan-sponsored terrorism prompted 64,827 Kashmiri Pandit families to leave the valley in the early 1990s and live in Jammu, Delhi, and other areas of the country, said government.
According to the Home Ministry’s annual report for 2020-21, terrorism claimed the lives of 14,091 civilians and 5,356 security force personnel in Jammu and Kashmir during the 1990s and 2020.
“Militancy in Jammu and Kashmir is intricately linked with infiltration of terrorists from across the border,” the report said.
Terrorism prompted several Sikh and Muslim families to flee from Kashmir valley to Jammu, Delhi, and other parts of the country, according to the report. Over 1,054 families from Jammu’s hilly areas moved to the plains.
According to the Relief and Migrant Commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir’s registration records, 43,618 registered Kashmiri migrant families are currently settled in Jammu, 19,338 families in Delhi and the National Capital Region, and 1,995 families in a few other states and Union Territories, according to the report.
The Home Ministry has granted 3,000 jobs in the Jammu and Kashmir government under the Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Package – 2008, and another 3,000 jobs under the Prime Minister’s Development Package – 2015, with the goal of resettling Kashmiri migrants in the valley (PMDP-2015).
The Home Ministry has also authorised the construction of 6,000 transit accommodations in Kashmir valley to house these 6,000 Kashmiri migrant labourers, at a cost of 920 crore.
1,025 units have been finished or largely completed under the programme, with 1,488 more under development.
According to the research, from 2014 to 2020, there were 2,546 terror incidents in Jammu and Kashmir, with 481 security officers killed in action, 215 civilians slain, and 1,216 terrorists dead.
Between 2014 and 2020, there were 1,776 attempts to cross the border into Jammu & Kashmir, with 685 of them succeeding.
