New Delhi: In a bid to provide housing for Kashmiri migrant employees returning to the Valley, the government has initiated a project to construct 6,000 transit accommodations. Over the past three years, a total of 880 flats have been completed, as revealed in a written reply in Rajya Sabha by Union Minister of State for Home, Nityanand Rai. The decision to undertake this project was influenced by the improved security scenario in the Kashmir Valley.

It's important to note that no Two Room Tenements (TRTs) were constructed in 2004. However, Rai clarified that tenements were built in the Jammu region, specifically in Purkhu, Muthi, Nagrota, and Jagti, to provide housing for those who had migrated due to terrorism between 1989-1990 from their ancestral homes in the Kashmir valley to Jammu.

The construction of 5,248 tenements took place in two phases until the year 2011, addressing the needs of the migrants. Nevertheless, there have been no new tenements built for this purpose in the last three years, as confirmed by the Minister in response to the query posed by Congress MP Akhilesh Prashad Singh. Singh sought clarification on whether 5,242 Two-Room Tenements (TRTs) were constructed in 2004 across various locations in Jammu, including Jagti, Purkhu, Muthi, and Nagrota, under the Prime Minister Package of the previous Government for the Return and Rehabilitation of Kashmiri Migrants, as well as whether any new tenements have been built in the recent past.

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