Jammu and Kahmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha laid the foundation stone of transit accommodation for Kashmiri Pandit employees in the Zewan area of Srinagar. Kashmiri Pandits working under the Prime Minister’s Reconstruction plan will benefit from this plan, the LG office said.
The housing colony being constructed on 113 of land. It will have 39 blocks compromising 936 flats. The Roads & Bridges (R&B) department has been directed to timely complete the project, it said. Sinha while addressing the gathering at the inauguration event said, “We are working in a sensitive manner to resolve issues raised by Kashmiri migrants.”
The Jammu and Kashmir government has started making many such transit accommodations for Kashmiri Pandits in various districts of Kashmir Valley. Earlier, the residential quarters were constructed for pandits in the Vessu area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantang district under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s relief package for Kashmiri migrants in the Union territory.