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| Let’s not wait for 5th group | | Azad asks PM to push WG implementation | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Apr 11
As the Prime Minister’s fifth working group on the controversial issue of Center-State relations continues to be a non-starter, the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has strongly pleaded for implementation of the recommendations of four working groups.
To review the issue of working groups recommendations and other development issues concerning Jammu and Kashmir, the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had an elaborate meeting with the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi last evening. Later he also met the Home Minister Shivraj Patil.
An official spokesman said that Azad pressed for early implementation of the recommendations made by four out of the total five Working Groups, arguing that these need not wait for the fifth WG on centre-state relations to make its recommendations.
The Chief Minister’s meetings with the PM and the HM were held a day after he chaired a high level meeting with State civil and police top brass at Jammu where these recommendations were thoroughly discussed.
The Chief Minister had arrived in the union capital in the afternoon for a scheduled meeting with the Prime Minister.
The issues that came up for discussion in Thursday’s meetings with Dr. Singh and Mr. Patil include WG recommendations on militancy affected orphans and widows, rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits, issues related with refugees of 1947 from West Pakistan and of 1947, 1965 and 1971 from PoK and compensation of land under defence ditches and border fencing, besides enhancement of rent for land and orchards under the use of army.
The Chief Minister urged the Prime Minister to ensure early implementation of the WG recommendations so that benefits reached to the concerned people soon. He also thanked him for the central government accepting in toto the recommendations of the State government for massive hike in rent of land and orchards under army’s use in J&K.
In his meeting with the Home Minister, Mr. Azad also discussed the Prime Minister’s forthcoming two-day visit to Jammu on April 25 during which he was scheduled to inaugurate the 390 MW Dul-Hasti power project in Kishtwar and a bridge over the Chenab river in Akhnoor.
The Home Minister is also visiting the winter capital tomorrow on a day’s visit. The Chief Minister returned to Jammu this morning. |
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