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New Delhi: Faced with persistent demands of Kashmiri Pandits, the Central government has agreed to consider issuing of special identity cards to the displaced members of the community who left the Valley after 1990 and were not registered as migrants.

The Union Home Ministry has, however, refused to re-open the registration of Pandit migrants in Delhi.

The move is expected to benefit at least 50,000 displaced persons, who moved out of the Valley after 1990 when registration of migrants was stopped.

"If the bonafides of the Kashmiri migrants are proved, they could be considered for registration in Jammu and the government of National Capital Territory of Delhi could accordingly be intimated for issue of identity cards," the Ministry said in a communique to Kashmiri Samiti, a frontline organisation of the community.

The letter asked the Samiti president Sunil Shakdher to intimate certain details in respect of each of the families to the Home Ministry for verification through Jammu and Kashmir government.

The details sought include the place from where they migrated, date/month/year of migration and number of persons of family who migrated, reasons for migration and whether district officials had been informed about the migration and if not, the reasons for the same.

PTI