Lucknow. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday gave agricultural land lease, residential lease and approval letter of Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana for the rehabilitation of 63 Hindu Bengali families displaced from East Pakistan. On this occasion, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the wait of 38 years is over. In 1970, out of 407 displaced Hindu families from Bangladesh, 332 were kept in different parts of the country. They were rehabilitated at Madan Soot Mill, Hastinapur, but were rendered destitute due to the closure of the mill in 1984. Out of these 65 families were to be arranged by UP but no government took care of them. When the BJP government was formed in UP in 2017, the process was started. Today, these families are being given housing under the Chief Minister’s Housing Scheme with two acres of agricultural land lease and 200 meter housing lease to these families. These will also be covered by other schemes of the government. The Chief Minister said that even though pattas are being given to 63 families, 400 people will get its benefit.
Uttar Pradesh: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath distributed residential and agricultural land papers to 63 Hindu Bangladeshi refugee families in Lucknow. pic.twitter.com/5id7wco0SB
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The Chief Minister said that India has not only given shelter to those who did not get shelter in their country and had to suffer even after independence, but systematic rehabilitation has been done. This is an unprecedented example of service to humanity. He said that when the BJP government was formed in Uttar Pradesh in 2017, there were many challenges. Many people like Musrah, Vantangiya, Charu, Bhil etc. did not get any benefit after independence. We have provided 1 lakh 8 thousand houses to such people under the Chief Minister’s Housing Scheme. 38 villages of Vantangia were converted into revenue villages and they got the right to vote for the first time since independence. He said that the talk of these people did not reach the insensitive governments of the past.
The decades-long wait of 63 Hindu Bengali families displaced from erstwhile East Pakistan in 1970 comes to an end today.
For their rehabilitation, agricultural land and residential lease and acceptance letters of Chief Minister’s Housing Scheme have been distributed to them today.
Hearty congratulations to all! pic.twitter.com/ROa7M34CTj
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Chief Minister Yogi said that now when these 63 families are being settled, then it should be developed as a colony. They should be established as model villages. The village should also have the facility of hospital, school, drinking water facility, community building. They should also be linked with employment so that these people can move towards self-reliance. It will be a great achievement that those who could not be taken forward towards employment and self-reliance for 52 years, the government is taking them towards self-reliance.