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Modi announces measures to soothe minorities

After a meeting with Chief Minister Narendra Modi and representatives of Muslims in Gandhinagar, NCM Vice-Chairman Tarlochan Singh said that the state government would survey the damages to properties in the violence and involve non-governmental organisations to ensure that work was carried out properly.

Modi had announced that Chairman of the National Minority Development and Finance Corporation, Kazi Mohammed Miya Mazhari, and its member Shamim Kazi would be involved in implementing the Rs 150-crore [Rs 1.5 billion] relief package announced by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the state, Singh said.

Singh said the chief minister had assured that everyone would be given an opportunity to lodge fresh FIRs.

Modi had also assured that a three-member committee would be formed in every district to record the statements of excesses committed against women, he said.

The chief minister made it clear that no relief camp would be closed unless proper security and rehabilitation were ensured for people who were uprooted from their villages by the violence, Singh said.

On the issue of people who had gone missing following the violence, Modi said a list of unclaimed bodies would be verified and the aggrieved families asked to submit photographs of the missing people.

Terming the meeting as "successful", Singh said it was "good beginning and the mission is to bring a solution".

K P S Gill, security advisor to Modi, who also attended the meeting, assured the minority community that action would be taken against those involved in the riots.

"I have come here to bring an end to the prevailing law and order situation and have taken up the challenge to end it," he asserted.

PTI

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