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ESTIMATES COMMITTEE (1964-65) SEVENTY-FIRST REPORT (THIRD LOK SABHA) MINISTRY OF REHABILITATION (Reception, Dispersal and Rehabilitation of new Migrants arriving in India from East Pakistan since ist January, 1964) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI M arch, lSSS ChmUrm 1987 CSmhm) Pric* : Rs. 150 P LIST OF AUTHORISED AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT PUBLICATIONS SL Name of Agent Agency SI. Name of Agent Agency No. No. No. No. ANDHRA PRADESH 11. Charles Lambert & Company, 101, Mahatma 1. Andhra University General Gandhi Road, Opposite Cooperative Stores Ltd., Clock Tower, Fort, Waltair (Visakhapatnam) 8 Bombay . 30 12. T he Current Book House, 2. G. R. Lakshmipathy Chetty Maruti Lane, Raghunath and Sons, General Dadaji Street, Bombay-1 60 Merchants and News Agents, Newpet, Chan- 13. Teccan Book Stall, dragiri, Chittoor Ferguson College Road, District . 94 Poona-4 . 65 ASSAM RAJASTHAN 3* Western Book Depot, 14. Information Centre, G o Pan Bazar, Gauhati 7 vernment of Rajasthan, Tripolia, Jaipur City , 38 BIHAR UTTAR PRADESH 4. Amar Kitab Ghar, Post 15. Swastik Industrial Works, Box 78, Diagonal Road, 59, Holi Street, Meerut Jamshedpur 37 City . 2 GUJARAT 16. Law Book Company, Sardar Patel M arg, 5. Vijay Stores, Starion Road, Allahabad-i . 48 Anand . 35 WEST BENGAL 6. The New Order Book Company, Ellis Bridge, 17. Granthaloka, 5/1, Ambica Ahmedabad-6 . 63 Mookherjee Road, Belgharia, 24 Parganas . 10 MADHYA PRADESH 18. W . Newman & Company Ltd., 3, Old Court House 7. Modem Book House, Shiv Street, Calcutta . 44 Vilas Palace, Indore City . .. 13 19. Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 6/1 A, Bandiharam Akrur Lane, Calcutta-12 82 MAHARASHTRA DELHI g. M /s. Sunderdas Gianchand, 601, Girgaum Road, 20. Jain Book Agency, Con Near Princess Street, naught Place, New Delhi 1 Bombay-2 . 6 9# The International Book 21. Sat Narain & Sons, 31419 House (Private) Limited, Mohd. Ali Bazar, Mori 9. Ash Lane, Mahatma Gate, Delhi . 3 Gandhi Road, Bombay-1 22 22. Atma Ram & Sons, Kash- mere Gate, Delhi-6 9 10. The International Book Service, Deccan 23. J. M . Jaina & Brothers, Gymkhana, Poona-4 26 Mori Gate, Delhi . 11 CONTENTS Page C o m p o sit io n o f t h e C o m m i t t e e ........................................................................ I ntroduction ............................................................................................................ C h a pter I G eneral A. The New I n f l u x ............................................................. x B. Migrants in Camps ........ 3 C. Desertions 5 C h a pter II A rrangements for R eception A Eligibility to Relief and Rehabilitation benefits . 9 B. Reception/Interception Centres ...... 12 C. Relief provided at the Reception Centres .... 15 C h apter I I I D ispersal A. Transit C e n t r e s ............................................................. 18 B. Mana Group of Transit Centres ..... 21 C. Dispersals 32 D. Relief Camps ............................................................. 33 E. Camps in general ........ 36 C hapter IV R ehabilitation .................................................................................... 5 l A ppendices I. Statement showing the number of Camps already opened and number of camps under construction for migrants from East Pakistan with their population as on 2-1-65 . 60 II. Form of application for a migration ..... 65 III. Scale of cash-doles, paid to migrants families in transit/re lief camps ......... 68 IV. Statement showing the expenditure incurred at Mana Group of camps during 1963-64 *nd 1964*65 .... 71 V. Statement of posts sanctioned and posts actually in position as on 1-10-1964 for Mana Group of Transit Centres 73 VI. Statement showing staff pattern to be created for Camp of 1,000 families ......... 79 VII. Statement showing births and deaths in Mana Group of Camps during the period April *64 to September *64 81 VIII. Statement showing Technical and Vocation Training Schemes sanctioned/contemplated................................... 82 DC. Copy of Office Memorandum from the Ministry of Home Affairs regarding age and fee concessions to displaced persons from East Pakistan ..................................................... 86 Paqb X . Statement showins broad lines of the executive instructions in regard to the administration and maintenance of discipline in the camps/transit centres for migrants from East Pakistan 88 X I. Form of Relief Eligibility Certificate .... 91 X II. Form of Screening Report .............................. 98 X III. Statement showing list of Resettlement Schemes sanctioned by the Government of In d ia .............................. 99 XIV . Statement showing the summary of Conclusions/Recom mendations of the Estimates Committee contained in the R e p o r t..................................................... 112 XV . Analysis of recommendations in the Report . 129 ESTIMATES COMMITTEE (1964-65) Chairmak 1. Shri Arun Chandra Guha M e m b e r s 2. Shri Bhagwat Jha Azad 3. Shri C. K. Bhattacharyya 4. Major Rajabahadur Birendra Bahadur Singh of Khaira- garh 5. Shri Brij Raj Singh 6. Shri Brij Raj Singh—Kotah* 7. Shri Jagannath Rao Chandriki 8. Shri Chuni Lai 9. Shrimati Ganga Devi 10. Shri P. K. Ghosh 11. Shri Gauri Shanker Kakkar 12. Shri L. D. Kotoki 13. Shri M. Maiaichami 14. Shri Jaswantraj Mehta 15. Shri Bakar Ali Mirza 16. Shri Mohan Swarup 17. Shri K. L. More 18. Shri Shankarrao Shantaram More 19. Shri M. S. Murti 20. Shri D. J. Naik 21. Shri P. K. Vasudevan Nair 22. Shri K. Rajaraxn 23. Chowdhrv Ram Sew&k 24. Shri Bishwanath Roy 25. Shri P. G. Sen 26. Shri Prakash Vir Shastri 27. Shri H. Siddananjappa *Bkct«d w.e.f. ilrth Sept* ml cr, 1964. ttct Shri L*l i S<n cr»'t<£ ir fce a ir.«ttkttr o f the CotmniKcc on hi» appointment it a Pat lirmeniaiv Secretary. (iv) 28. Shri Ramachandra Ulaka 29. Shri R. Umanath SO. Shri N. M. Wadiwa S e c r e t a r ia t Shri Avtar Singh Rikhy —Deputy Secretary. Shri B. K. Mukherjee—Under Secretary. INTRODUCTION 1. the Chairman, Estimates Committee, having been authorised by the Committee to submit the Report on their behalf, present this Seventy-First Report on the Ministry oi Rehabilitation—Reception, Dispersal and Rehabilitation of New Migrants arriving in India from East Pakistan since 1st January, 1964. 2. It would be recalled that the Estimates Committee for 1959-60 had examined the estimates of the Ministry of Rehabilitation— Eastern Zone—and presented the Ninety-Sixth Report (Second Lok Sabha) in April, I960, which dealt with relief and rehabilitation of displaced persons from East Pakistan. Action taken by Government on the recommendations contained in the above Report was examin ed by the Estimates Committee (1961-62) who presented the Hund- red-and-Seventieth Report (Second Lok Sabha) on the subject. 3. The Committee took evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Rehabilitation on the 15th and 16th December, 1964. The Committee wish to express their thanks to the Secretary, Ministry of Rehabilitation, the Director General of Relief and other officers of the Ministry of Rehabilitation for placing before them the material and information they wanted in connection with the examination of the estimates. 4. The Report was considered and adopted by the Committee on the 26th March, 1965. It was sent for factual verification to the Ministry of Rehabilitation on the 27th March, 1965. During factual verification, the Ministry submitted certain additional facts and figures pertaining to some of the paragraphs in the Report for con sideration of the Committee. These were considered by the Com mittee at their sitting held on the 2nd April, 1965 and such of those as have been accepted have been suitably incorporated in the Report. 5. A statement showing an analysis of the recommendations con tained in this Report is also appended to the Report (Appendix X V ). ARUN CHANDRA GUHA, Chairman, N e w D e l h i ; Estimates Committee. April 3, 1965.__________ Chaitra 13, 1887 (Saka). CHAPTER I GENERAL A. The New Influx Ever since the partition of the country, there has been Introductory, a continuous flow of people belonging to the minority communities from East Itokistan into the bordering Indian States of West Bengal and Assam, and the Union Territory of Tripura. This is due primarily, ii not solely, to the sense of insecurity prevailing amongst the minority communities in East Pakistan and this sense of insecurity has often been accentuated by widespread and organised riots and raids on the minority communities. Besides, there is also the question of economic difficulties, as the minority communities there have very little econo mic opportunities to earn their livelihood. After the riots of 1950, there was a large exodus of persons belonging to minority communities from East Pakistan into the bor dering Indian States and it continued upto ebout the middle of 1952. But even after that, there has been a continuous flow of migrants from East Pakistan, though in lesser dimension, so much so that by the end of July, 1958, the total migration from East Pakistan was estima ted at 41.17 lakhs. In March, 1958, certain restrictions were imposed on migration from East Pakistan. But even then the migration continued. In 1962, there were well-orga nised riots and assaults on the minority communities in Rajsahi and other adjacent districts of East Pakistan and about 20/25 thousand people migrated to India. Then came the riots in January/February, 1964. This time the riots were more well-organised and widespread than even the riots of 1950. The number of casualties is anybody’s guess, but it ran into thousand. The rate of influx of migrants from January, 1964 onwards assumed serious proportions and this time even Buddhists and Christians were also harassed and that led to the mass migration from East Pakistan into India. Large number of tribals also migrated both after the Rajsahi riots of 1962 and after the last riots of 1964.