Jagati township in jammu

With the shifting of over 50 displaced Kashmiri Pandit families, the newly constructed Jagati township has come alive with hustle and bustle. The area, which was a barren land over some years back, houses one of the largest township of the State at present.

While a good number of families from Mishriwala, Muthi and Nagrota camps have already shifted their luggage to their new destination, others were seen busy in cleaning the floor and unloading the luggage from the trucks and other vehicles. As hope sustains life, the migrants are optimistic that they too will start a new phase of life in this township, which will be quite different from the last 20 years miserable conditions faced by them in dingy and stinking camps.

The township, which is first of its kind in the State will completely throb with full charm on May 5, which is considered an auspicious day as per Hindu mythology after the majority of camp inmates will shift to their new apartments.

Spread over 716 kanals of land, the first phase of 2,112 Jagati township was inaugurated by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on March 4 this year when he issued on spot allotments to 11 displaced Pandit families from Kashmir valley.

Housing 4,224 two room tenements, the Relief and Rehabilitation Organization has so far issued allotments for 1,520 quarters among whom 700 families have taken possession by this evening, Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner, Vinod Kaul, told News Agency.

He said out of 2,112 quarters, which were to be completed in second phase, 700 more are ready for allotments while the rest 1412 will be completed within days. The allotments have been made to all camp inmates of Mishriwala, Muthi and Nagrota, he added.

He said the allotments for 1250 families putting up in Purkhoo will follow and those families who have given representation that their names did not figure in the allotment lists will be reconsidered but the Department will strictly follow the policy adopted by it for the allotments and no family will be considered, which had constructed its own house.

The township has all the facilities including 40 bedded hospital, one Higher Secondary and one middle school, a shopping complex with 58 shops, three community halls (two small and one big) with its own arrangements of water supply and electricity, 38 parks and 40 green patches along the main road.

While two small community halls are ready, the work on larger one will be completed by May 15 this year. The work on 40 bedded hospital is also going on at full scale and it will be completed by August this year. However till date the provisional medical center has been opened in the camp which has all diagnosis facilities like Xray, ultra Sound, dental clinic and Pathological lab.

The township has a provision for supply of 3.8 million litres of water per day while it will have 20 mva Receiving Station with 38 sub stations of 400 kva each. Besides two private schools have also started functioning outside the township. The admission process for children in the schools has started and till date 300 students have been admitted.

It may be recalled that the foundation stone of the Jagati township was laid by Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh on July 16, 2007. However due to the Amarnath agitation in 2008 and other problems the construction work was delayed.

"We hope our miseries will end to some extent," said Deedar Singh, who shifted to his new residence in the township this morning from Muthi Camp Phase first. Singh was all praise for the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh UPA, chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Revenue and Relief Minister Raman Bhalla and Relief Commissioner, Vinod Kaul who took initiative for construction of this giant township.

Same were the views of Ashok Kumar Bhat who had taken the possession of 156 Block B, Vishal Kumar Bharti and Raj Nath who had shifted from Mishriwala camps to start life anew in this township.

They expressed their total satisfaction over the policy adopted by the Government for the allotment of the quarters saying all the deserving people who were putting up in camps for over two decades now were given preference.

However some migrants demanded construction of two more shopping complexes in the township for accommodation of all those camp inmates who had set up their small business establishments in the camps for earning their livelihood.

Though the new destination is delinked from the city and the migrants doing the private jobs in Bari Brahmana, Gangyal, Digiana will face some problems but for a better life they are ready to give some sacrifice.

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