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GoI's master stroke leaves Kashmir centric parties red faced
12/5/2020 11:54:44 PM
Early Times Report
jammu, Dec 5: Government of India announcing 50% subsidy on carriage, storage in cold stores for Kashmir's apple growers has left the Kashmir centric political groups, including PAGD, red faced as such step was never taken in the past 70-years by these so called mainstream political parties in Kashmir.
Political pundits believe that the Centre's initiative is a major blow for the political groups that till now were hoodwinking masses with emotive slogans and false promises. "In Kashmir about 80% of the population lives in the rural areas and about 60% of the J&K's revenue is generated by agriculture and horticulture. This move is a big relief for the people associated with the apple industry," said an observer.
According to the officials the Prime Minister has waived off all the early riders of the scheme for greater benefit to the farmers. This measure is viewed as a historical and beneficial order for apple growers who will now have no binding in quantity, distance and rate. All growers, as per the order qualify for storage and transport subsidy of 50 percent. "This is nothing but a major relief for us. We used to suffer a lot due to the turmoil and how the produce used to rot in the go-downs. The hard work of a year used to go down the drain and hardly we would get an opportunity to take the produce to the markets and sell it at appropriate prices. With the coming of the subsidy, we shall heave a sigh of relief. We will at least have the surety that we will not plunge into losses," said a north Kashmir based farmer.
Reports inform that such pro-people measures taken by the Central Government are a big blow for such political groups in Kashmir that used to talk separatism and sedition.
"The political groups must understand that the emotive slogans have no takers at all. They desperately need to change their ideology. Development and prosperity must form the core principle of their ideology now as the central government has made its intentions clear that it is intending to usher in a new wave of development in the union territory," said a Kashmir based political expert wishing to remain anonymous.
A PDP leader from south Kashmir meanwhile termed the Government of India's 50 percent subsidy for the apple growers as something that could prove detrimental for the party in south Kashmir-a rural belt densely populated by horticulturalists. "It means what we have been telling for years was just a mirage. The Central Government's such a move is surely going to work on ground," he asserted.
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