Kanpur: Massive exercise to rehabilitate 63 Bengali Hindu families, which migrated to India in the 1970s from East Pakistan (Bangladesh), in Bhainsnya Village in the Rasulabad area in Kanpur Dyat Regency ongoing.
On Thursday, considering the proposed visit from the Secretary of the Additional Head of Pancayati Raj and Rural, Chief Development Officer, Kanpur Dehat, Soumya Pandey, reached Bhainsaya Village, where the family would stay, and take stock settings in connection with their accommodation.
Accompanied by the Department of Revenue and Development Department, Pandey gave the direction needed to the officials concerned.
In this order, CDO checks the work of the rejuvenation plan carried out at the school built there.
He directs the authority of the concern that incomplete work must be finished immediately.
Then, he also examined the ‘Gaushala’ built there and directed officials to provide green food, straw, water and bran to the cow.
He said that remembering the approaching winter, ‘Gaushala’ must be covered with tarps so that animals remain safe.
To remember, the state government has decided to rehabilitate Hindu Bengali which migrated in the 1970s from East Paccistan (Bangladesh).
The State Cabinet on November 10 has cleared the proposal for the rehabilitation plan for 63 Hindu Bengali families moved from East Pakistan in 1970 in 121.41 hectares of land available on behalf of the Rehabilitation Department in Bhainsaya Village, under the Rasulabad Tehsil in Kanpur Regency.
Official sources say the family will be given two acres each for agricultural activities, and 200 square meters of land for residential purposes to be allocated per family to build a house under the Mukhya Mantri Awaas Yojana, said the source and added further that “them too will get land reform and irrigation facilities under mgnrega as needed “.
Those who migrate from East Pakistan are rehabilitated with the provisions of the Act 1950 refugee & refugee (compensation and rehabilitation) Act 1954 brought by the Indian government.
“In Odisha and Budaun, 332 families were rehabilitated while 63 Bengali Hindu families remaining provided jobs in a cotton factory in Meerut and settled there,” said the official resource further.
However, the factory was closed on August 8, 1984 after 63 families who were waiting for rehabilitation.
Initially there were 65 families but members of two families had died because, the source added.