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Special ID cards for Pandits

New Delhi MAY 25. Faced with persistent demands from the Kashmiri Pandits, the Central government has agreed to consider issuing special identity cards to the displaced members of the community who left the Valley after 1990 and were not registered as migrants.

The move is expected to benefit at least 50,000 displaced persons, who moved out of the Valley after 1990 when the registration of migrants was stopped.

``If the bonafides of the Kashmiri migrants are proved, they could be considered for registration in Jammu and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi could accordingly be intimated for issue of identity cards,'' the Ministry said in a communique to the Kashmiri Samiti, a frontline organisation of the community. — PTI

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