Jammu and Kashmir government will start the allotment process for over 4,000 flats for Kashmiri pandit migrants at Jagti in Jammu district from December, officials said today.

The 4,218 two-room flats are constructed under the prime minister's rehabilitation plan and those families living in one-room dwellings which were provided to them by the state are eligible for the new houses.  Those migrants who have acquired their own houses will not be considered for the houses, the officials said. The state government has constructed the flats at Jagti in Nagrota area of Jammu.

The relief organisation, created for welfare of the Kashmiri migrants following the eruption of militancy in the Valley in 1990, has started a verification process after reports that some migrants were holding on to one-room dwellings even after acquiring their own houses. The process is likely to be completed by mid-November.

"As per the present policy, migrants who have shifted to their own houses shall not qualify for allotment of two-room tenements as these are meant only for those families who do not own any residential accommodation in Jammu," the officials said.

While preference will be given to migrant families living in camps and one-room tenements, the state will frame a separate policy to allot the left over flats to those migrant families living in rented accommodation.

Curfew in the Valley
Meanwhile, curfew was today imposed in parts of Srinagar, Baramulla, Pulwama and Kupwara districts of Kashmir Valley as authorities apprehended breach of peace after Friday prayers. Nowhatta, Rainawari, Khanyar, Safakadal and Maharaj Gunj police station areas were also brought under curfew in the wee hours.

"Curfew has been imposed in five police station areas of summer capital Srinagar as a precautionary measure," a police spokesman said.

The saffron town of Pampore in Pulwama district has also been placed under curfew after a 55-year-old man, who was allegedly beaten up by security force personnel on October 7, succumbed to injuries late last night at a hospital here, the spokesman said.

Two days after Ghulam Nabi Mir, a resident of Kadlabal in Pampore, was allegedly beaten up by security force personnel, his family members had lodged a complaint with police which registered an FIR under section 307 (attempt to murder) of Ranbir Penal Code.

With Mir's death, the toll in the ongoing unrest in Kashmir Valley, which began on June 11 after the killing of a 17-year-old boy at Rajouri Kadal in the city, has now gone up to 106.