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| Three Hours: CM bombs House with figures | | Bottom line –Economic Profile Has Changed For Better | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 15
The Governor took 55 minutes to read out a concise report of achievement of the government spanning over five years, the House did a surgical operation of the facts, figures and resolves, when it came to the Chief Minister today he made the legislators to sit for around three hours to listen the full story.
Many legislators may have little tired but they stayed attentive and quite responsive as the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad replied to the debate on the motion of thanks on Governor's address in the legislative assembly today. A rare seen of its kind, the motion on the address was passed with a unanimous voice vote with no nod or noise of opposition after the Chief Minister served the House with bundles of statistics.
Even though the Chief Minister made a detailed account of all departments and all sectors but the bottom line of his three hour long speech sums up that the economic profile of entire Jammu and Kashmir has changed tremendously ever since the coalition government took over. He said the per capita income had registered an increase of Rs. 5000 and development investment Rs. 4000 during this period. He said the coalition government had taken progress oriented and people friendly measures, equally benefiting both rural and urban masses.
The Chief Minister said development being the main agenda of his government, measures to improve security situation and build confidence were also taken that have led to an improved scenario over the past five years. He complimented people and political leaders for bringing about this change. He said the issues taken up by the coalition government were of far reaching importance for the people and not easy ones to implement for any government. He said political views of various parties could be different but all were unanimous in bringing about peace and progress and remove uncertainty in the State.
Regarding security and human rights situation, the Chief Minister quoted figures to show that the scenario had vastly improved. He said violence had decreased by 34.5 percent compared to last year and by 73 percent compared to 10 years ago. He said civilian killings had recorded decrease by 58 percent and 84 percent, respectively in last one year and a decade ago. In case of killings of political activists, he said these had decreased by 47 percent as compared to the last year and by 91 percent 10 years earlier. He said custodial killings have shown a decline by 33 percent and 66 percent, respectively during the same periods. He said the year 2007 was the first in the last 20 years during which no custodial disappearance was reported. He said during 2003 there were 17 such cases. Similarly, he said killings of police personnel. SPOs, VDC members and security forces had also decreased by 62 percent, 60 percent, 66 percent and 30 percent, respectively since the last year.
On human rights, the Chief Minister said that the State Human Rights Commission had made 650 recommendations of which 390 were accepted by the government and another 260 were under consideration. He said a cabinet sub-committee was constituted to monitor implementation of these recommendations. He said he was himself monitoring the implementation. He said the security forces were being educated on human rights and the subject was also introduced in the police training curriculum. |
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