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| Release of detainees and employment package to precede political package | | | early times report
Jammu, Sept 23: In order to ensure that separatists, especially Syed Ali Shah Geelani, suspended his plan of inciting people to stage protest rallies and respond to his call for shutdown, the Government has decided to begin with the exercise on releasing those detainees who had not been involved in any major crime.
Official sources said that the top functionaries of the police, paramilitary forces, state and central intelligence agencies were at present, engaged in reviewing cases of several hundred stone throwers who have been detained, some of then under the Public Safety Act. Sources said that to start the process of releasing some of the detainees preference would be given to those who have been taken into preventive custody.
Cases of those who have been detained under the PSA would be reviewed in a phased manner. Sources said that the idea of the Government was to set free all those detained but the process will have to be completed in phases.
Official sources said that after the All Party delegation has submitted its report to the Government of India it has been decided to take in hand measures that would result in the filling of over 20,000 posts in various Government departments on priority basis.
Sources said that after all the vacant posts were filled the Government will identify areas where more posts could be created.
In the meantime, the state Government has urged the centre to fix some quota for the unemployed youth from Jammu and Kashmir in the central services, in the public sector enterprises, Army, Air force, Navy and the paramilitary forces. Once it was done the problem of unemployment, which is one of thee factors responsible for the youth to take to the streets could be resolved to a great extent.
The sources said that as far as the demand for withdrawal of troops and the repeal of the AFSPA was concerned there was no consensus among the ladders of various political parties and even the central Government was divided over the issue.
The centre would wait for the situation in Kashmir to show some improvement which alone could encourage the Government to withdraw the AFSPA from atleast seven to eight districts in the state. And it could be followed by withdrawal of some companies of troops from those areas within the valley where militancy related violence had declined. |
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