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| Discriminatory treatment against Jammu Province continues: JSM | | | Early Times Report
Jammu Oct 12
In a joint statement the leaders of Jammu State Morcha (JSM) namely Prof. Virender Gupta, H.B.Khajuria, Dig Vijay Singh and Chandra Uday Sharma have criticized the State Government, for the discriminatory treatment against Jammu Province and for not honouring his own repeated commitments about giving impartial and equitable treatment to all the regions of state in the matter of development and allocation of funds etc.
When Union Health Minister and Union Information Minister announced respectively the opening of Unani Medicine College and Indian Institute of Mass Communication Centre (IIMCC) in Kashmir Valley, the Chief Minister who time and again boasted for uniform and equitable treatment to all regions, did not show any concern about Jammu Province. Regretting the stand of the Jammu based elected representatives holding portfolios in state cabinet failed to take on this issue, JSM leaders said, “It is sad on part of the indifferent attitude of Ministers and MLAs belonging to the ruling parties and to Jammu region that none of them made any attempt to demand for Jammu Province institutions parallel to these.’
Jammu State Morcha wants that the long pending demand of Jammu people of opening of Ayurvedic College be accepted and started in Jammu Province, they added. It also demands that Indian Institute of Information Technology as has been earlier decided by the Govt. of India and as promised in the citizens meeting by the Deputy Chief Minister along with other Ministers including Advisor to the Chief Minister, Divender Singh Rana be established in Jammu Province.
The leaders of Jammu State Morcha also expresses their resentment on the extreme discrimination meted to Jammu Province in the matter of allocation of development funds by the Central Team that visited the state in first week of October, 2009.
The team sanctioned Rs. 356 crores for conservation of Dal Lake in addition to Rs,298 crores already sanctioned for the same purpose. In addition to this project worth Rs. 2000 crores were also approved whereas Jammu got only Rs. 62 crores for one solitary schemes- modernization of Ravi- Tawi canal.
The Kashmir Province got 95% of the total amount sanctioned by the Visiting Team. It also accepted the demand of expansion and strengthening of Existing National Institute of Technology (NIIT) and funds for Kashmir’s five towns under UIDSSMT schemes.
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