Jammu, May 16 With the silent migration of Kashmiri Pandits still on, only 7,000 persons have now been left in the valley against 13,000 in 2002. These people are residing in 270 pockets of villages and towns, including 63 families in Srinagar, 23 in Badgaum and 18 in Matan.
Bhatt pointed out that members of the society had also met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi in October for providing compensation to a few poor families residing in the refugee camps in Srinagar and Matan. Sonia had then instructed her party%u2019s state affairs in charge Ambika Soni to do the needful, but nothing had been done so far.
