TIA NEWS
The Government is all set to announce a 2000 crore rupees package for displaced people from Pakistan occupied Kashmir, PoK, living in the country. This comes in the midst of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s overtures to people of PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan.
Official sources said the Home Ministry is expected to place the details of the package before the Union Cabinet for approval soon. The Jammu and Kashmir government has already identified 36,348 families for distribution of the package. Under the scheme, each family will get around 5.5 lakh rupees.
The refugees from West Pakistan, mostly from PoK, got settled in different areas of Jammu, Kathua and Rajouri districts. Some of the families were displaced during partition in 1947, and others during the 1965 and 1971 wars with Pakistan.