Kashmiri Pandits govt employees of 3 departments asked to resume duties from June 16

Kashmiri Pandits in the departments of Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs have been asked to return to work on June 16.

Kashmir Pandit employees working at the Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs department in Jammu and Kashmir's Ganderbal district have been instructed to return to work on June 16.

Following the targeted killings, the employees fled the Kashmir valley. They have now been asked to return to work.

The Kashmiri Pandit government employees had also made a desperate appeal for evacuation from the Kashmir Valley.

In a letter to Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha dated May 14, the All PM Package Employees Forum wrote, "We, the PM Package Employees and Non-PM Package Employees request your good self to please evacuate us safely from Kashmir province and save us. Sir, in case your good self is not able to anything, we are ready to give en masse resignation... Kashmir is not safe for us."

The All PM Package Employees Forum is a body of Kashmiri Pandit employees.

Further, in the letter, they wrote they are willing to serve anywhere in the world but not in Kashmir. "We are not able to live here... We are being killed here on daily basis," the letter said.