New Delhi, Aug 2: 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 added that 5,248 two-room tenements were built in the Jammu region, including Purkhu, Muthi, Nagrota, and Jagti, to house those who had fled their ancestral homes in Kashmir owing to terrorism in the years 1989 to 1990. Up until 2011, these tenements were built in two stages.
“No new tenements have been constructed for the aforementioned use in the recent three years. But because the security situation in the Kashmir valley has improved, the government has started building 6,000 transit homes for the migrant workers from Kashmir who are coming home. In the last three years, 880 apartments had been built, he claimed in a written response.
