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| PDP, BJP surprised over Task Force for Valley | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu,Dec 26 :-Several Jammu based political leaders, including those belonging to the BJP, State Morha, Panthers Party, have expressed surprise over the demand for setting up a task force to examine the reasons for tardy development activities with the purpose of recommending measures for improving the development scenario in the valley.
The demand has been raised by Kashmir based political leaders and academicians who have started blaming the Government of India for having ignored the valley when it had announced setting up of two task forces, one for Jammu and the other for the Ladakh region. The task forces have to identify areas which have remained neglected and recommend measures for removing prolonged discrimination of people of the two regions in the distribution and allotment of funds for development activities.
Panthers Party leader, Harsh Dev Singh ,said that over the years the Kashmir valley has been getting a lion's share out of the funds allotted for various development projects. He said besides this inequitable distribution of development funds the valley has been getting a major share in Government services and in professional colleges.
He and BJP leader, Ashok Khajuria said that the share of the Jammuites in the jobs in the civil secretariat was not more than 20 per cent against 75 per cent from the valley. They said that besides this Jammu had been given a raw deal by way of keeping the number of Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies less than in the valley despite the fact that the region of Jammu had more area and population.
Harsh Dev Singh said that the demand of the opposition for setting fresh delimitation committee continues to be rejected by the state Government which did not want the two regions to have equal share in the devolution of political power and funds.
He and others said as such there was no need for the Government of India for setting up a task force for the valley on the pattern the two had been set for Jammu and Ladakh regions. They said that if some academicians in Kashmir have been talking about tardy development activities during the last two decades only the separatists and their supporters besides the militants were responsible for it.
They disputed the claim of these academicians that the valley was underdeveloped when compared to the region of Jammu as far as road connectivity, health facilities, and allied sectors were concerned. They said that in terms of health services there were more hospitals besides the Soura Institute of Medical Sciences than in Jammu.
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