UP government gives farm, residential land to Bangladeshi Hindu families displaced in 1970

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday handed over letters of lease for agricultural and residential land to 63 Hindu families who were displaced in 1970 from Bangladesh (then East Pakistan). They have also been given Rs 1.20 lakh for construction of houses under the Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana.

At a programme organized at Lok Bhawan, Yogi said, “The long wait is over. In 1970, about 407 families came to India from East Pakistan (Bangladesh). Most were resettled in different parts of the country, but 65 families kept waiting for resettlement. Out of these 65, two families are nowhere to be found.”