• CM urges Home Minister to revive CBMs in JK
• ‘KPs to have transit accommodation till permanent settlement at native places’
• ‘More cross-LoC points for movement of people and goods’
Government of India would work out the modalities for legalising the Nepal route for return of Kashmiri youth from Pakistan-administered Kashmir who had gone across for arms training and are now eager to return and live normal life.
This was revealed by Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh in a meeting with Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti here Thursday.
He also assured the chief minister of opening more cross-LoC points for movement of people and goods in J&K.
Mehbooba urged Union Home Minister to revive the Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) in Jammu and Kashmir “to put the peace and reconciliation process back on track”.
The chief minister informed the home minister that the J&K government would make arrangements for accommodating the migrant Kashmiri Pandits in transit accommodation till their permanent settlement at their native places.
Mehbooba stressed on the need for reviving the intra and inter-state CBMs, including rehabilitation of the Kashmiri youth who had gone across for arms training and are now eager to return and live normal life.
She also called for opening more cross-LoC points in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh for free movement of people and goods. “She specifically stressed the need for opening Suchetgarh-Sialkote and Kargil-Skardu routes to increase people to people contact in the region,” according to an official statement.
She also called for raising additional IRPF battalions in Jammu and Kashmir “to create employment opportunities for the local youth”.
Rehabilitation of those affected during the devastating floods of September 2014 and reconstruction of the damaged public infrastructure projects were also discussed.
“Mehbooba said the people of Jammu and Kashmir have great expectations from the present coalition government in the State and it needs all possible assistance from the Centre for ushering J&K into an era of peace, progress and prosperity,” reads the official statement.
