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| Food for thought: Now, bias against Jammu in ration supply | | Region gets 1792 quintal sugar less than Valley every month | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 2: At a time when the state government is exhibiting generosity in distribution of additional sugar in the state, the discrimination meted out to Jammu region in different sectors could be found wide and open here as well.
The government's very own data reveals how the Kashmir valley is being given undue preference over the Jammu region, with even the distribution of ration meeting the ruthless discrimination without any remorse.
The government on June 1 announced amid much fanfare that the people of the state would get additional 1kg of sugar every month as a good will gesture from the Chief Minister. However, the government itself was seen spilling the beans as it stated that the Jammu division of the state would get 1792 quintals of sugar less than Kashmir.
Furthermore, the details reveal that out of the 27,22,000 families of the state who would be benefited , 14,50,600 families hail from the Kashmir division while as there are mere 12,71,400 families in Jammu division which will get benefited from the scheme. Here again the discrimination is quite clear. Kashmir region has 1,79,200 beneficiaries more than the Jammu region.
Also, the government details inform that 14,506 quintals of sugar will be distributed to the beneficiaries in Kashmir while as 12,714 Quintals of sugar will be distributed in Jammu. A clear difference of 1792 quintals.
Such details have once again falsified the government claims of ensuring equitable growth and development in the state. Not only in the developmental projects, the discrimination is being done in terms of the food distribution as well.
Early Times has been at the forefront in highlighting the gross discrimination against Jammu region. Earlier, the newspaper carried a story related to how under the non-plan devolution, there the amount sanctioned by the Jammu and Kashmir government to the Srinagar Municipal Corporation for various developmental and sanitisation projects was a whopping 20166.47 lakh rupees while as under the same head Jammu was given around 96 crores less than Srinagar, that is, 10508.87 lakh rupees.
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. It puts they figure as 201 lakh rupees less than the Jammu city.
The discrimination done in terms of allocation of funds for the Jammu has once again proven beyond doubt the high intensity of step-motherly treatment being meted out to the people of Jammu by the successive regimes of Jammu and Kashmir.
Also, the industrialists from the Jammu division of the state have paid more than Rs 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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