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| Avoid showing red rag to the bull | | | Governmnt agencies in Jammu and Kashmir need to learn the art of restrain.As the security scenario continues to be fluid in the state,especially in the Kashmir valley,there is no need for ministers and other senior bureacrats to gloat over successes.Since the rise of militancy related violence in Jammu and kashmir in 1989-90 any attempt by any Government agency or ministers or bureacrats at claiming success in their operations against militants usually has been serving as a red rag to the bull.Experience has shown that whenever the Government made repeated announcement regarding heavy tourist rush to the valley militants were quick in responding to such claims with gunfire that forced the excursionists to cut short their stay in the hotels and houseboat.Within a day or two the occupency rate of rooms in hotels and houseboats registers phenomenal drop.Within days the rush of tourists on the Boulevard and in other tourist resorts becomes a thing of history.And not only this.Those tourists who had booked reservation of rooms in hotels and houseboats are usually seen cancelling their r eservation because of fear.And in certain cases the pilgrim traffic to Mata Vaishnov Devi and to Amarnath cave gets also affected.Invariably it has been seen that militants resurface in areas where the security forces and the Government claim those areas having be sanitised against terrorists.However,the Tourism Department seems to have become wiser than before.Between April and first week of June it deliberately avoided dishing out figures on daily tourist arrival in Srinagar.Whenever,newsmen or those connected with the electronic media approached the Tourism Department officials they politely either expressed ignorance on daily tourist arrival or pleaded with the mediamen not to report anything about bumper tourist traffic to the valley.And the excursionists continued to land in Srinagar when there was no untoward incident having taken place in Kashmir which could scare tourists away from the valley.And had not the turmoil broken following the death of one youth in police firing on June 11 the tourist season would have got extended till the end of June.It could not be the case which caused great financial loss to all those connected with tourism.It was a major loss to houseboat owners, hoteliers, traders, transporters porters and poneywalls.And the recent decision of the Government to open all educational institutions,which had remained shut for over three months because of violence,would not received lukewarm support for first five days had not the Minister for Education,Peerzada Mohd.Syed,and the Rural development Minister,Ali Mohd.Sagar,threw howlers.Peerzada,while announcing the Government programme on opening all schools,had dished out details on the arrangments the state administration had made for asisting students in reaching the school premises. The separatists and their supporters became alert and stoned buses,carrying students,which resulted in acute drop in the attendence.Peerzada should have remained silent and banked on a mere Government notification which was enough to inform the st udent community.Another howler from Sagar proved yet another irritant for the separatists.Sagar ,even before having waited for the response of students to the opening of educational institutions,announced that the Panchayat poll will behld in the state in December. A major red rag to the separatist bull.And both moderates and hardliners have rejected the 8-point package for the troubled state and centre's moves for involving them in a dialogue.In fact right from 1996,when the Assembly election was held after of gap of nine years,the separatists have demonstrated their anger and unocenr over the poll processes.Whether in 1996 or in 2002 or in 2008 elections the separatists were regular and punctual in giveing calls for boycott of the polls.Hence the very annoucement on holding of the Panchayat election seems to hav alerted the separatists who are said to be devising their plans for sabotaging the poll process
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