Parliament: Over 2,500 Kashmiri Migrants Given Jobs Under Govt Special Scheme, Says Union Minister

Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai has informed Parliament that 2,639 government jobs have been provided to Kashmiri migrants under the Prime Minister's Development Package.

File photo of Union Minister Nityanand Rai

Source : PTI

Over 2,500 Kashmiri migrants have been provided with jobs under the Prime Minister's Development Package (PMDP), Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said in Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

The PMDP is a restructuring Rs 80,068 crore package announced by PM Narendra Modi in 2015. It was based on five pillars — Humanitarian Relief, Crisis Management, Social Infrastructure Development Projects and Economic Infrastructure. Rai in a written reply during Parliament's Winter Session said: "As many as 2,639 government jobs have been provided to Kashmiri migrants under the Prime Minister's Development Package (PMDP), 2015."

Rai also informed Parliament that the government has approved construction of 6,000 transit accommodation for Kashmiri migrant employees who are engaged or will be engaged in different departments of government of Jammu and Kashmir.

Rai said that in order to address the grievances of Kashmiri migrants the J&K government launched a portal last year. Moreover, the Centre reimburses the J&K government to provide various facilities to the eligible Kashmiri migrants settled in Jammu, he said.

FCRA REGISTRATIONS OF 1,811 NGOs CANCELLED

Nityanand Rai also told Lok Sabha that the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) registrations of 1,811 NGOs were anulled by the government between 2019 and 2021. He said these organisations had allegedly violated the provisions of the FCRA.

According to the law, any NGO intending to get foreign funding must register itself under the FCRA.

"During the last three years i.e. 2019 to 2021, the FCRA registration certificates of 1,811 associations have been cancelled under section 14 of The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA, 2010) due to violation of provisions of the FCRA, 2010," Rai said.

Rai said whenever any inputs pertaining to use of foreign contribution to spread terror activities are received by the ministry, appropriate action under the FCRA, 2010, and other laws and rules is taken.