By IANS
Jammu : The Jammu and Kashmir government has announced a relief package for people who fled to Jammu from the hills in the region in the 1990s because of militancy.
The government Tuesday said that Rs.400 per person and free ration would be given to the migrants living at Talwara in Jammu.
Militants had conducted a series of massacres in Rajouri, Prankote, Basantgarh, Gool-Gulbagrah areas of Udhampur district and Dessa, Bhaderwah, Premnagar, Chapnari areas of Doda district in the 1990s.
Although most of the migrants from the hills of the Jammu region were Hindus, they claim that the government has not been treating them at par with Hindu migrants from the Kashmir valley.
Sudhanshu Pandey, the divisional commissioner of Jammu, told IANS: “The order to provide relief and ration to the migrants will come into force with immediate effect. We have worked out details with the leaders of the migrants.”
He said the migrants would have to register themselves with local authorities to claim the relief package.