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| PM may come with good news on CU | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Sept 24: Following pressure mounted on the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi by the ruling coalition leaders, including Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and PCC Chief Saif-ud-Din Soz the central Government is to announce its revised policy on the opening of the central university in Jammu and Kashmir.
The centre had already allotted one central University for Jammu and Kashmir out of 14 it had approved for various states. But the very plan of the state Government to set up the Central University and the IIM in Kashmir triggered vehement protests in the Jammu region. Those demanding that the proposed central university be set up in Jammu started raking up regional discrimination issue on the plea that Kashmir cannot claim to have both the CU and the IIM.
In order to press for its claim a Central University Andolan Samiti has been constituted with Paviter Singh as its head. The CUAS has been giving calls for protest rallies and demonstrations and students even struck work for several days. On other occasions torchlight processions were taken out and protests were held at each district headquarters. With growing threats to peace in the Jammu region the State Government had mooted the idea of having two campuses, one in Srinagar and the other in Jammu, of one central University but this plan was opposed by the vice chancellor, Abdul Wahid.
Right from the day the Union Minister for Human Resources Kapil Sibal turned down the state's demand for two universities the Chief Minister had pleaded with Prime Minister and Ms Sonia Gandhi that the decision on the CU be reviewed.
Informed sources said that either the state will get two CUs or two campuses of one CU will be established. Sources said that since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was to visit the state in connection with the inauguration of the Rail link between Qazigund and Anantnag he would either announce this people-friendly plan before he lands in Srinagar or on the day he will be in Kashmir.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and PCC Chief Saif-ud-Din Soz have conveyed to the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi their fears that the situation may take a turn in the state if the CUs were not set up in both the regions. They had told the central leaders that since the separatists planned to revive their "Intifada"(peoples resistance) further discontent and conflict among people and between the two regions could prove helpful to the separatists in destabilizing peace in the valley. Indications are that the centre has decided to treat Jammu Kashmir as a special state that deserves special dispensation.
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