As per the Government plan, a total of 4,218 LIG flats will be constructed at Karli in Jagti area near Nagrota in the next two years. This will be apart from 1,024 flats at Muthi, Purkhoo and Nagrota, whose construction is in the final stages and is expected to be completed by December this year.

Once these flats are complete, the Kashmiri Pandits living at migrant camps on the outskirts of the state’s winter capital and other districts in Jammu region will be shifted to these flats. Relief Commissioner Vinod Koul says only the Kashmiri Pandits will be entitled to the flats.

Estimating that around 5,242 families live in these camps, Koul said that “we are closing the migrant camps at Battalwalian in Udhampur and in Kathua district”. Nearly 300 migrant families living at both these places will be taken care of during allotment.