A total of 880 flats have been constructed in the Kashmir valley in the past three years for Kashmiri migrant employees who wish to return, Union Minister Nityanand Rai told Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
Rai also said 5,248 two-room tenements were constructed in Jammu region —Purkhu, Muthi, Nagrota and Jagti — to accommodate the people who had migrated due to terrorism in 1989-1990 from their ancestral places of residence in Kashmir. These tenements were constructed in two phases till 2011.
“No new tenements for above purpose have been built in the last three years. 880 flats have been constructed in the last three years,” he said.