Srinagar: The Government of India has informed Parliament that 1,697 Kashmiri Pandits have been appointed in various government departments by the Jammu and Kashmir administration since August 5, 2019, when article 370 was abrogated and the erstwhile state was divided into two union territories- JK and Ladakh.
Responding to question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Home Aaffairs India Nityanand Rai said that as per data provided by the administration of Jammu and Kashmir, 44,684 Kashmiri migrant families were registered with the Office of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner (Migrants), Jammu, comprising 1,54,712 individuals.
“In order to rehabilitate Kashmiri migrant families, the administration of Jammu and Kashmir has appointed 1,697 such persons since August 5, 2019, and selected additional 1,140 persons in this regard,” he said.
The government of India said in August last that nine properties in Jammu and Kashmir have been given back to Kashmiri Hindus who left the Valley in the 1990s.
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