Overview
- The administration opened 1,416 transit flats on Sunday for PM Package employees at three Kashmir Valley sites — Zewan, Kulangam Bagh and Kakan Maran — with Zewan’s 936 units already fully allotted.
- The three complexes are part of a 6,000-flat transit accommodation programme that has finished more than 5,200 units and allotted over 3,800, and officials say the remaining flats should be completed by December.
- Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha urged officials to guarantee uninterrupted electricity and water, robust security and prompt grievance redressal, and Additional Chief Secretary Anil Kumar Singh publicly pledged to meet the December completion target.
- PM Package employees continue to raise operational and administrative complaints about defective lifts, sewage treatment plants, repair works, promotion and post-status disputes, and delayed salary or benefits, with protests and calls for faster fixes reported.
- The scheme pairs government jobs with housing to encourage the return of displaced Kashmiri Pandits, a policy launched after the 1989–90 exodus and expanded in 2020, and the next tests will be service delivery on site and resolution of staff career and payment grievances.