Why J&K’s Demography Will Change Beyond Belief. Important read. https://www.newsclick.in/why-jks-demography-will-change-beyond-belief

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By 2011, nearly 14 lakh migrants had already been living in J&K for 10 years or longer. Around 3.35 lakh have been here for 5 and 9 years. Ten years have passed since 2011, thereby implying that both these categories satisfy the 15-year rule prescribed for domicile certificates.

Assuming that all long-term and medium-term migrants have continued to stay on in J&K, in line with the findings recorded in the 2011 Census, 17.4 lakh people can certainly acquire domicile rights, which constituted roughly 14% of J&K’s population of 1.23 crore in 2011.

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This is figure of 2011, and about people already living in J&K who can get a domicile certificate as per the 15 year rule. Let’s not forget India has just started its neo colonial settler adventure and they sure will add new subjects to this count in every way possible.

Anuradha Bhasin, executive editor of the Kashmir Times, points to another anomaly: “The Domicile Rules do not have a cut-off period. Presumably, anyone who has studies for seven years over the last 70 years qualifies for the domicile certificate.”

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There are 2.5 lakh to 5 lakh West Pakistan refuges in J&K. However in 2018, Indian govt decided to pay them 5.5lakh per family, just a handful of families applied for this assistance, and ones who did withdrew their application fearing prosecution over fake PRCs.

Pandits living outside J&K who were earlier not registered with the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner, will now be allowed to register.

IT DOESNT MATTER WHEN THEY LEFT, it can be that they left a century ago, this is to swell up the non Muslim population.

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The children of central government employees INCLUDING THE ARMED FORCES who have served a cumulative of 10 years in J&K can apply for the domicile certificate.

It also seems the domicile right is offered to the children of officials, who themselves do not qualify for it.

Another interesting provision which we shouldn’t miss is that now anyone can buy land in Kashmir and live here, and then the same people after 15 years can become a domicile of the state. The doors of J&K have been thrown wide open.

The masterstroke here however is how they tinkered with the J&K Property Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2012. Now every landless person who lives in a slum area in city or urban area as on 01-01-2010 shall be entitled to a dwelling house at an affordable cost.

The ownership of a dwelling house will generate a property document, which can be submitted to acquire the domicile certificate. A large number of outstate migrants can, therefore, become domiciles by 2025.

Notice how this is appealing to lower middle class and poor from India.

Kashmir and Kashmiri’s on a personal level may refrain from selling land to outsiders but the Hindu majority Jammu region will be where this can be done rather easily. End product being easy addition of Hindus as the domicile of J&K.

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Tehsildar has been made a competent authority in issuing the domicile certificate and a provision has been added to render the local beurocratic power (if any) useless by imposing a fine of 50k on the Tehsildar if the application is not processed within 15 days.

Clearly, the Domicile Certificates Rules emphasises upon the principle of inclusion. In other words, the Rules give the benefit of the doubt to the applicant in contaray to the NRC exercise in India which is stringent in weeding out Muslims from India.

Tells about the bias.

Kashmir’s demography is about to change AND FAST. Kashmir needs to act, our leaders need to come out of their beds or a day is not far when we will be dragged out of our homes by foreigners.

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