Amravati: Seventy-seven years after migrating to India following Partition, 585 Sindhi families in Amravati have finally received permanent residential leases.The long-pending demand was fulfilled at the initiative of guardian minister of Amravati district Chandrashekhar Bawankule. The leases were distributed at a function held at Sanskrutik Bhavan here on Monday evening.In 1947, after Sindh province went to Pakistan, thousands of Sindhi families left behind their homes, land, businesses and relatives to settle in India. In Amravati city, 585 families were living without permanent title to their residential land for decades. The Revenue Department has now granted them permanent residential leases.Speaking on the occasion, Bawankule said the Sindhi community has made a significant contribution to the country’s economic progress and to Amravati’s industrial and commercial development through textile, electronics, trade and employment generation.“Having lost everything during Partition, our Sindhi brothers rebuilt their lives in adverse conditions through struggle, hard work and entrepreneurship. Granting them permanent right to their houses is not just an administrative process, but recognition of their struggle of many decades,” he said.“It was the dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Devendra Fadnavis that the Sindhi community should get its rightful house. As Guardian Minister of Amravati, I am happy that I could make this dream a reality,” Bawankule added.The decision gives the 585 families official and permanent rights over their homes. Members of the Sindhi community expressed satisfaction over the resolution of the decades-old issue.Dr Santosh Navlani Maharaj of Shivdhara Ashram, Mayor Shrichand Tejwani, MLAs Pravin Tayde, Umesh Yawalkar, Jayanat Dehankar, Kiran Paturkar, Raviraj Deshmukh, Municipal House Leader Chetan Gawande, BJP Vyapari Aghadi State President Virendra Kukreja, Kanhaiyalal Rangwani, Dr Inderlal Gamnani, Vasudev Krishwani, Sunil Kharate, corporators Prashant Deshpande, Dr Sanjay Tirthkar, Ravindra Khandekar, members of Badhte Kadam Group and a large number of Sindhi community members were present.
