{"id":235574,"date":"2023-04-01T19:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T13:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=235574"},"modified":"2023-04-01T19:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T13:49:04","slug":"scheme-for-refugees-from-pakistan-hits-rough-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scheme-for-refugees-from-pakistan-hits-rough-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheme for refugees from Pakistan hits rough patch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cScheme for refugees from Pakistan hits rough patch\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>1st April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Central government scheme to provide financial assistance to over 5,000 Hindu and Sikh families who migrated to India from Pakistan\u2019s West Punjab after the 1947 partition, has hit a rough patch.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About the Scheme for refugees from Pakistan<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Launched in: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To provide financial assistance of \u20b95.5 lahks per family to over 5,000 Hindu and Sikh families who migrated to India from Pakistan\u2019s West Punjab after the 1947 partition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Duration of the scheme<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The scheme has been extended till March 31, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the obstacles faced by the scheme?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Less claims settled:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Of the 5,764 eligible families, claims have been settled for only 903 families so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Several claims could not be processed, as the individuals were not able to produce original documents such as refugee cards, when they entered India from Pakistan\u2019s Sialkot in 1947.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Corruption:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The entire scheme was mired in corruption and the revenue officials were demanding bribes before clearing the files.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cScheme for refugees from Pakistan hits rough patch\u201d published in The Hindu on 1st April 2023 What is the News? A Central government scheme to provide financial assistance to over 5,000 Hindu and Sikh families who migrated to India from Pakistan\u2019s West Punjab after the 1947 partition,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scheme-for-refugees-from-pakistan-hits-rough-patch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scheme for refugees from Pakistan hits rough patch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-235574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}