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| J&K economy plunged into abyss post re-organization: Harsh Dev Singh | | | 
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 13: Former minister Harsh Dev Singh today said that after re-organization era there has been a massive slow down in J&K with development taking a back seat and growing unemployment becoming more pronounced. The dismantling of J&K state has adversely impacted the trade, tourism and economy of the erstwhile princely dogra state of the country. Addressing a huge gathering at Town Hall Ramnagar Singh said that there is an all-round dis-enchantment amongst the people who were caught unawares on August 5, 2019 when the BJP led government at the centre all of a sudden announced re-organization of J&K and its division into two union territories. “While the economy fast dissipated and development came to a grinding halt, the ever growing unemployment seemed to be the only notable feature of the saffron rule. The past few years witnessed massive public uprisings against the anti Jammu and anti people policies of the ruling dispensation which continued to be suppressed through iron fist of police and civil administration,” said Singh.
Singh said that BJP rather than honouring the commitments made by it during elections, it was trying to crush the dissenting voices by causing dissensions in and breaking the opposition parties. He appealed to the workers not to succumb before the machiavellian designs of the power hungry politicians. He said that he would stand with its people through thick and thin and continue to expose and oppose those who exploited the gullibility of poor masses for their personal and political gains. Singh lambasted the NDA government for having done the greatest disservice to J&K by demoting it to the level of UT. It has humiliated the Dogras in particular by dismantling the oldest Dogra state. The extension of several draconian laws after abrogation of Article 370 including opening of lands and jobs to outsiders had in particular, come as a rude shocker for the people of J&K. “The survival of small traders has been threatened by the proposed entry of corporates, business tycoons and big stores in the UT. The unemployed youth of Jammu region have been the most disappointed lot with their share in services have been abysmally reduced. The Daily wagers, the contractual, the underemployed have all felt cheated in the present regime,” said Singh. Singh called upon the vigilante organizations to keep a close watch over the functioning of PHE, Revenue, Education, Power and RDD. He said that the lackadaisical approach of the concerned authorities was responsible for power and drinking water crisis in the majority of the rural areas. He regretted the non-payment of relief to farmers whose lands were acquired for construction of PMGSY roads during the past 6-7 years. |
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