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Early Times Report
Jammu, May 9
The ruling coalition plans to take up with the new Government in the centre the issue of opening more border routes on the LoC and the International Border for trade.
It is believed that the Jammu and Kashmir Government does not want the PDP leadership, which is clamoring for hassle-free trade and travel facilities, to take the credit for opening of more routes for trade and travel. And thus the present ruling coalition has decided to approach the new Government in the centre to take up with Islamabad the need for improving communication and banking links for the benefit of traders on either side of the LoC.
During the last several months the traders on either side were inconvenienced on account of lack of effective communication network and banking facilities. In the initial stages of trade it was a sort of barter system between the traders on either side of the LoC. The Government wants a meaningful trade between the two parts of the state by providing better banking and communication facilities.
The PDP leadership has been of the opinion that improvement in facilities for trade and travel on the border could further result in the dismantling of the walls of suspicion and mistrust among people and Governments between the two sides.
Traders in Jammu and Kashmir want more items to be included in the list of export items. Similarly traders in occupied Kashmir too favour more items for import and export. Once the export list was revised it could result in growth in the industrial sector in the state. More industrial entrepreneurs would be encouraged to set up units in the Jammu and Kashmir once they found that a large number of items were being exported to Pakistan occupied Kashmir. One reason that resulted in the tardy industrial growth in the state was weak market cover for the industrial and agricultural and horticultural items produced in Jammu and Kashmir
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