No plan for KP township under consideration: Govt

No plan for creation of exclusive zones for Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) is under consideration, the government informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, putting to rest controversy revolving a separate township for the displaced community.

Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said, “No proposal to create separate zones, exclusively for Kashmiri Pandits, in the state of J&K is under consideration.” 

This puts to rest the controversy surrounding recent reports that government was planning to build composite townships for Kashmir pandits in the Valley. 

The National Conference and separatists groups in the state have opposed building of exclusively township for Kashmiri pandits. However, the stategovernment had said that the township will have mixed population of pandits, Muslims, Sikhs as well as Buddhists from Ladakh.