Four decades on, 63 Hindu families displaced from East Pakistan get land, houses

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held previous governments responsible for the plight of such families

After a four-decade-long wait, 63 Hindu families displaced from East Pakistan were given houses, agricultural land and residential plots by the Uttar Pradesh Government on Tuesday.

Each family was given two acres for agriculture purposes, a residential plot measuring 200 square metres and a house in Kanpur Dehat district.

Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held previous governments responsible for the plight of such families.

All these families had migrated from East Pakistan, now called Bangladesh, in 1970s and were given jobs in a yarn mill in Hastinapur town of Meerut district, he said.

The CM said the yarn mill closed down 1984 and some of them were rehabilitated while 65 families kept waiting for their rehabilitation.

"Your 38-year-long wait is over today," the CM said in the presence of Deputy CMs Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak and Jal Shakti Minister Swatantra Dev Singh.