Pak firing: PM directs compensation for those displaced
12 Oct 2014 4:48 AM IST
Prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday directed that people displaced from border areas of Jammu and Kashmir because of Pakistani shelling should be suitably compensated.
The details of compensation would be announced in ‘due course,’ a PMO statement said here.
‘Prime minister Narendra Modi has directed that people who have been displaced from the border villages of Jammu and Kashmir due to dastardly acts of shelling by Pakistan over the last few days, be suitably compensated,’ the statement said.
Nearly 30,000 people have been displaced from border villages of Jammu and Kashmir due to one of the worst violations of the 2003 ceasefire by Pakistan since 1 October.
Pakistani troops targeted over 130 villages and 60 Border Out Posts on the intervening night of 8 and 9 October in Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts.
Under fire from the opposition over escalating ceasefire violations by Pakistan, Modi had on Thursday said India has responded to the aggression with courage and lamented public debate on the issue for political gains.
The details of compensation would be announced in ‘due course,’ a PMO statement said here.
‘Prime minister Narendra Modi has directed that people who have been displaced from the border villages of Jammu and Kashmir due to dastardly acts of shelling by Pakistan over the last few days, be suitably compensated,’ the statement said.
Nearly 30,000 people have been displaced from border villages of Jammu and Kashmir due to one of the worst violations of the 2003 ceasefire by Pakistan since 1 October.
Pakistani troops targeted over 130 villages and 60 Border Out Posts on the intervening night of 8 and 9 October in Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts.
Under fire from the opposition over escalating ceasefire violations by Pakistan, Modi had on Thursday said India has responded to the aggression with courage and lamented public debate on the issue for political gains.
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