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| Winter capital given Rs 96 Cr less than Srinagar for development | | Discrimination against Jammu continues unabated! | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 6: Once again discrimination with the Jammu has come to fore as the government has sanctioned Rs 96 crores less to Jammu city's development when compared to Srinagar.
Official documents in possession of the Early Times reveal that under the non-plan devolution, the amount sanctioned by the Jammu and Kashmir government to the Srinagar Municipal Corporation for various developmental and sanitisation projects is a whopping 20166.47 lakh rupees while as under the same head Jammu was given merely Rs. 10508.87 lakh.
Furthermore, under the District Capex Budget (SDAP), Jammu city was sanctioned mere 4.50 Lakh rupees while as for the Srinagar city, the amount sanctioned by the Government stands 205.72 lakh rupees, 201 lakh rupees less than Srinagar city.
The discrimination in allocations has once again brought to the fore the step-motherly treatment being meted out to the people of Jammu by the successive governments.
This is not the only department in which discrimination is done with the Jammu region. For the construction of the Ring Road project, Kashmir has been sanctioned Rs 1860 Crores while as for the same project in Jammu, the government has sanctioned Rs 1400 crores.
As per the official data, in possession of the Early Times, there are at present, no less than 11,807 doctors, engineers and post- graduates from Jammu region without a job while as the number of jobless youth with similar degrees is much less in Srinagar. The figures are belying the claims of equitable development and equal opportunities to the youth of both the regions.
Data reveals that at present, there are 60 doctors with MBBS degrees jobless in Jammu while the number of unemployed engineers is 466. There are more than 100 diploma holders jobless in Jammu while the number of post graduates who were denied the employment opportunities is 610. Furthermore, at present, there are 1642 graduates in Jammu region without any job while as those in category of 'others' are 7916 in number.
The figures till 2014 were even more dreadful. Till December 2014, there were 756 unemployed MBBS doctors in Jammu. The number of such engineers was 647. Diploma holders were 3024 in number while as those jobless youth in Jammu having post graduate degrees were 1853. The number of graduates was 6383 and those in the category of others were '13448'.
Furthermore, the industrialists from the Jammu division of the state have paid more than 870 crores as power usage tariff to the government in three years while as from Kashmir Valley, the power department has got mere 27 percent of what Jammu industrialists have been paying. As per the records, industrialists from Kashmir haven't paid more than Rs 240 crores in three years. |
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