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| Panun Kashmir for removing anomalies in Religious Places Management Act | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, May 17- Panun Kashmir today impressed the government to invite the representatives of the Kashmiri Pandit community for a dialogue to remove various anomalies and infirmities in the draft Kashmiri Hindu Shrines and Religious Places Management and Regulation Act 2009.
National Spokesman, Virender Raina said that there is still time to bring the necessary amendments in the bill before it is presented in the assembly. In its present form there would be serious impediments in the independent functioning of the board constituted under the said Act and the very independence of the board members to function would be hampered. As the government envisages the formation of a Shrine Board under the Act as its subsidiary and reserve unto itself the right to remove any elected member and also to dissolve the board itself. He said, this would jeopardize the independence of the so called board and only end up as an extension of the government of the day. The Act also calls for a survey of the religious shrines in Kashmir by the government officials. We demand that the survey of the temples and the shrines in Kashmir be made by the representatives of the Kashmiri Pandits only, he added.
He further demanded that all the cremation grounds be also included within the purview of the Act as it involves large chunks of land, a substantial part of which has already been usurped by the land mafia in Kashmir.
‘The government must act immediately and call the representatives of the community to initiate a dialogue to remove all these anomalies, he opined.
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