Jammu: A valley-based organisation of
Pandits on Thursday said members of the community would be forced to migrate from Kashmir if the state government failed to take
measures to address to their problems, including unemployment.
"If government does not pay attention to our problems,
we will be left with no option except to migrate to other
parts of the country from Kashmir, where we have been staying
even after several thousand families of the community migrated
in 1989-1990," Hindu Welfare Society Kashmir president Autar
Krishen Rajpuri told reporters here.
After migration in 1989-90, there were about 10,000
Pandit families left in the valley and in last 19 years as
many as nine thousand families have also left the valley due
to problems, he said.
He said there were only one thousand families of the
community living in different areas of Kashmir.
Rajpuri attributed the migration of the community to
three major massacres at Wundhama in 1997, Sangrampura in 1998
and Nadimarg in 2001, adding the failure of the Centre and
state to attend to economic problems of the community also
contributed to this.
PTI
