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| Withdrawal of forces would be suicidal for adopted students | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 9- The future of over thousands of students adopted by paramilitary forces during the last 15 years in Jammu and Kashmir is uncertain A million dollar question as to what would happen these students after the total withdrawal of forces from the state is haunting to the parents and relations of those school children who had been adopted by the paramilitary forces in different parts of the state. Official sources, while referring to the role of the BSF in this welfare scheme, today said that the BSF had adopted over 2300 school children in the state during the last 15 years.
Sources said that after they were adopted the BSF provided these kids, books, stationery items, clothes and other goods for daily use. Similarly the paramilitary forces and the Army too adopted the school children besides adopting several villages for their multifaceted developments.
Not only this the Army under the Operation Sadhbhavna also built over 1100 mini hydel power projects, improved roads, renovated or rebuilt school buildings and organized series of medical camps where people were examined by doctors and given medicines free of cost.
Official sources explained that whereas the program of road development, construction of mini hydel projects, school buildings and organizing medical camps by the Army would continue those being carried out by the paramilitary forces will remain so long the central forces remain deployed in the state. They said that usually the benefits school kids receive after they were adopted by the central forces usually has been a one-time program. One police officer said that in majority of cases the BSF or CRPF would provide books, clothes and other items free of cost to the adopted children for a period of one year. After that a new set of school kids was adopted so that more children would be covered under the program.
The police officer said that even civic program carried out by the police remain a one-time affair for a particular area. These civil welfare activities continue to be carried out from one place to the other. He said after the BSF and CRPF were withdrawn from the state, school children and villages adopted by them should not expect those benefits to remain a permanent affair.
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