ISLAMABAD – The government is providing stipends worth Rs 3.8 million torefugees students of Indian Occupied Kashmir studying in Pakistanuniversities.An official of Ministry of Kashmir Affairs said Rs 0.5 million had alsobeen allocated to provide financial assistance to the destitute person ofIoK refugees.He said, the government was also providing ration package to more than 7400refugees’ families every year.
To a question he said, the development projects in the Azad Jammu Kashmirwould be completed pending from the last 10 years.He said projects related to health and education sectors would also becarried in the GB and AJK on priority to provide best available facilitiesto the masses.To another question he said comprehensive compensation package had alsobeen introduced to provide assistance to people affected by the Indian armyfiring on the Line of Control (LoC). “All the affectees at LOC would begiven Insaf health cards”, he added.He said Eco-tourism departments would also be opened to facilitate local aswell as international tourists.He said Rs 22 billion had been allocated in 2018-19 Public SectorDevelopment Progamme (PSDP). He said 50 bed cardiac hospital was underconstruction at Gilgit Baltistan while medical colleges in districtMuzaffarabad, Mirpur and Gilgit were under construction costing Rs 6billion.
