KASHMIR LIFE (KL): You recently held fast-unto-death to press the demands for your community?
SANJAY TICKOO (ST): This was to protest the non-implementation of employment schemes resulting in financial hardships for the nonmigrant members of the Pandit community. Our community has some demands that are not fulfilled by the government for the last three years. We were told to wait for some time but nothing happened. I felt that the only way to highlight this stepmotherly treatment is to go on a fast unto death.
KL: What are the exact demands?
ST: There are many, but jobs for non-migrants is our priority. Also, they have to be registered as migrants. Even the political workers and every migrant is getting Rs 30000 per month. We do not receive any such benefit. Also, now if non-migrants want to migrate, we are asked to get it in writing from the concerned SHO that we are doing it due to some threat. The fact is that we nonmigrant pandits have been more vulnerable since the 1990s. The threat is of course from both sides: state and non-state actors.
Moreover, what is happening to our community is bizarre. We are being abused day in and day out by the forces for not leaving the valley.
KL: You always mention the unemployment of non-migrant pandits. You want jobs for them. What is the rate of unemployment in the community?
This story is from the December 27 2020 - January 02 2021 edition of Kashmir Life.
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