Kashmiri Pandit staff on Monday staged one other protest demonstration right here, reiterating the demand for his or her relocation exterior the Valley until peace is restored there.

Hundreds of staff, each women and men, assembled underneath the banner of All Migrant Employee Association Kashmir exterior the Press Club carrying placards, a few of which learn, “Don’t rehabilitate us at the cost of our blood! Orphaning our children! Widowing our wives! and the only solution is relocation anywhere outside Valley.” Nearly 4,000 Kashmiri Pandits are working in different departments in the Valley after they were selected under the Prime Minister’s employment package announced in 2008.

The package has two major components – one pertains to the provision of 6,000 jobs for youth and another to 6,000 accommodation units for the employees.

“Our protest is part of the ongoing agitation for our relocation from the Valley as we are not feeling safe there. We have reached Jammu while our colleagues are still on protest in the Valley for the last 31 days,” one of the protesters Shweta Bhat said.

“We are working on the field, feeling depressed and unable to concentrate on our work with a fear in mind,” Bhat said, rejecting the government assurance of relocation to safer places within the Valley.

She said the protesting employees will not buy the “government lollipops” as “our lives are at stake”. “Let the federal government relocate us anyplace exterior the Valley until the scenario turns into regular,” she added.

Bhat said while all those living in rented accommodations have reached Jammu, those staying in government accommodations are locked in transit camps where they are continuing their protest.

Another protester Ajay Kumar said, “We are staff and are able to serve, however the scenario shouldn’t be conducive for us. We will return when the federal government pronounces that Kashmir has change into terrorism-free.”