| Sops for Kashmir and Ladakh, Jammu gets Toll Plazas, Property Tax: Harsh | | | 
Early Times Report
Vijaypur, Oct 12: Accusing the BJP led govt of doling out the most discriminatory treatment to Jammu even after abrogation of Art 370, Harsh Dev Singh JKNPP Chairman and former Minister said that while sops and doles were announced for Kashmir and Ladakh, the Dogra land was being given one shocker after the other. He divulged that several ministries of central government including HRD teams, Minority Affairs and Home Ministry teams besides others had repeatedly visited Kashmir, post Art 370 abrogation, with announcements of opening professional colleges, schools, Hospitals, skill development centres, socio-economic development projects besides release of funds for facelift of Srinagar city and its suburbs. They introduced Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) for procurement for Kashmir apples, walnuts and saffron while failing to address the genuine concerns of Jammu region farmers devasted by untimely rains and other vagaries of weather. “The youth of Jammu were shocked over the latest statement of Govt assuring govt Jobs and self employment schemes for gun wielding youth in the event of their giving up arms. Earlier also, the govt had mooted a proposal for doubling the scholarship of wards of militants. The recently released select list of Fire Services Deptt had come as a bolt from the blue for the Jammu youth who felt betrayed as never before. And only recently the GoI has announced several concessions for Kashmir students in Higher Education Deptt to the neglect of Jammu region which too has suffered the onslaught of Pak’s misadventures. Similarly the central BJP leaders were regularly visiting Ladakh with assurances to protect their ethnicity, Jobs, culture, language, land and employment. He deplored that with Ladakh too getting due attention of central leadership in the form of its inclusion in “Tribal Areas” category through proposed amendment of sixth schedule of constitution and its further inclusion, under “Smart Cities Mission”, it was Jammu region alone which continued to be looked upon with a Jaundiced eye by the saffron flavoured govt at the centre.
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