Chandigarh, April 7: The Manohar Lal led State Government today ended the three-decade-long wait of the families of Kashmiri Pandits who between the years 1991 and 1993 had purchased land in Sector-2 of Bahadurgarh in Jhajjar district announced ‘Vachanpurti’ scheme to allot plots to 182 families in Bahadurgarh.
Making this historic announcement during a state-level programme held here today, the Chief Minister physically handed over the allotment letters to some of the beneficiaries who were specially invited to attend the programme, while the rest of the families got the said letters from the State Cabinet Ministers and Minister of State and Administrative Officers who also virtually attended the programme from the districts.
“Today is a historic day in Haryana’s history as the wait of families of Kashmiri Pandits who had purchased land in Congress’s tenure during 1991 and 1993 has finally ended today. In these 30 years they must have even lost the hope of getting their land which was sold to them without even telling its disputed status,” said Sh. Manohar Lal.
He further shared that after making some suitable amendments in the year 1997, some of the plots were released in favour of Kashmiri Pandits. But the families who did not get the land at that time had to wait for almost three decades.
“On April 6, 2022, after verification and required measurement of these plots being recorded at that time, the allotment process has already been done through the draw and today the letters to 182 families have been distributed to them. Other than the above-mentioned number, some of the families have already got their plots. Thus through this entire process promises made to these 209 families have been fulfilled, he added.
This ‘Vachanpurti Mission' is a befitting reply to the fake claims of Opposition, Manohar Lal
The Chief Minister said this ‘Vachanpurti Mission' is a befitting reply to the claims of the Opposition alleging that the present state government had stopped financial aid of Rs.5000 to the Kashmiri Pandit families.
“I would like to clarify that the scheme of giving Rs.5000 as financial aid to these families was not started by us, it was Congress only which had framed these Rules that any family would get the said amount for a period of 5 years. As per our official data, right now out of the total five such families, only one family is getting this aid because it has not yet completed the five-year rule, while the rest have completed their five-year norm,” said Sh. Manohar Lal.
The Chief Minister said that unable to digest the success of the ‘Kashmir Files’ movie, the Opposition is making these baseless statements.
The happiness of families knew no bounds
Thanking the Chief Minister for allotting their land which they had purchased almost 30 years back with their hard-earned money, the beneficiaries who were specially invited to attend the programme said that in the year 1990, because of the atrocities committed against them they had to vacate their houses overnight.
“In 1991-92 we came to Bahadurgarh. After coming here, we purchased a small piece of land hoping to restart our scattered lives but it took almost three decades for us to get possession of it. We can’t express our happiness and gratitude towards Chief Minister in words because of whom we got our land back,” said one of the beneficiaries.
Echoing the same, another said that after immigrating from Kashmir, for the past 30 years they tried hard to get the land they had purchased but today they are extremely happy that Manohar Lal led government had ended their wait
Additional Chief Secretary, Town and Country Planning and Urban Estates Department, Sh. Devender Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Housing for All Department, Sh. Anil Malik, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sh. V. Umashankar, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister and Director General, Information, Public Relations and Languages Department, Dr. Amit Agrawal and other senior administrative officers also remained present on this occasion.