Amid agitation, 5 Kashmiri Pandit employees transferred from Kashmir to Jammu
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The Jammu and Kashmir administration has transferred five Kashmiri Pandit employees from Kashmir to Jammu amid agitation for their relocation.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has transferred five Kashmiri Pandit employees from Kashmir to Jammu, a step welcomed by the community members who have been on a strike for over two months in support of the demand for their relocation over safety concerns.
The Landscape division of the Public Works Department (Roads and Buildings) last week ordered the transfer of five in-charge assistant engineers, all Kashmiri migrant employees, from Kashmir Valley to Jammu.
It was not clear immediately whether these were stand-alone transfers or the administration was planning to relocate these employees.
In three separate orders issued by the executive engineer of the Landscape division Kashmir on July 19 and 22, the engineers — Neetu Koul, Sunaina Raina, Sidharth Bhat, Sawan Koul and Sami Pandita — were directed to report to the assistant executive engineer (R&B) landscape subdivision 3rd in Jammu.
Nearly 4,000 Kashmiri Pandits are working in different departments in the valley after their selection under the prime minister’s employment package. They have been on an indefinite strike in support of their demand for their relocation outside the valley since the killing of their colleague Rahul Bhat.
Bhat was shot dead by terrorists inside his office in Budgam district of central Kashmir on May 12.
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