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| Welcomed formation of five working groups on Kashmir | | | The nomination of heads of five working groups on J&K, after their
consent is obtained, is an other milestone in the overall steps being
taken to address the grievances of various sections of the people and
remove their alienation as well as to give better governance to the
people. The formation of these five groups was decided in the second
Round Table Conference held at Srinagar on 24-25 May, preceded over by
the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh. The men of caliber and
integrity, in different fields, have been appointed as the heads of
the working groups by the approval of the Prime Minister as well as
the state Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. The other members of the
committees will be appointed in due course of time, most of whom will
be from out of the legislators, prominent members of political parties
and experts in various other fields from within the country. The
overall objective is to evolve a mechanism for giving better
governance to the people and to ensure that the development projects
are implemented honestly and that there is no scope for pilferation in
the funds allocated for the implementation of various projects, aimed
at improving the economy of the state and administer justice to the
people. One of the groups will also deal with the means to be evolved
to bring closer the peoples in two parts of the state, viz. one under
Pak occupation and other under Indian administration. This group will
also see how the trade between the two parts can be promoted.
Similarly another group will also review the relationship between the
state and the Centre and if need be devolution of more powers to the
state. However the most important working group constituted will look
into evolving mechanism for giving clean and better governance to the
people in the state. Infact the root cause of all the maladies with
which the people in the state are suffering has been the
mal-administration for last 58 years. There is dire need for giving
the people a good and highly responsive administration, which is free
of corruption, nepotism and favouritism. If people get justice and the
responsive government immediately addresses to their grouse and
removes their alienation, it will go a long way in emotionally
integrating the people of Kashmir with the rest of the country.
Happily politicians of all hues as well as other enlightened people
have by and large welcomed this development. The hard core
secessionist leader, Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani has, however, opposed and
criticized the formation of these groups, terming the step as an
attempt at hoodwinking the people and detracting their attention from
the real issue of getting rid of Indian occupation. His opposition to
the formation of these groups can be understood, since he is out and
out anti-India and stands for dismemberment of J&K from India. Hence
any step taken which addresses the grievances of the people and
diffuses the tension which leads to their alienation from the national
mainstream, does not fit in his scheme of things. But the opposition
to the formation of these groups and these being headed by men of high
caliber in the country, by the BJP can hardly be appreciated. The BJP
should have rather welcomed this development, since it aims at finding
out the ways and means to give the people a better and responsive
government and to remove their alienation |
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