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| Make LoC wholly porous for people to people contacts: Rather | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 31: Minister for Finance Abdul Rahim Rather has called for making artificial dividing line between two neighboring countries of India and Pakistan utterly irrelevant, if not demolishing it altogether like the wall of Berlin.
“It is union of hearts and not the Physical segregation of bodies that offers a better solution for reconciling conflicting Political interests”, Rather said while speaking at the valedictory function of “Panel discussion on Cross LoC Trade” here today.
He said LoC, like the wall of Berlin has emerged through history as one of the biggest human history tragedies which has worked as a line of segregation of two opposite political ideologies for the last over six decades and has, all through, remained oblivious of pain and anguish of all the human beings living across the line on either side despite sharing strong bonds of common culture, languages, economic interests and in many cases having close social and blood relationships.
Rather said that a steady and gradual growth in the volume of trade has taken place over the years despite the restricted lines of communication, absence of a banking and currency mechanism for trading and deficiencies in the trading infrastructure hastily created on either side of LoC. He said the enthusiasm of the trading community on both sides of LoC has carried their activities forward with a missionary zeal adding that more than the idea of monetary benefits accruing to them.
Rather urged for making LoC wholly porous to freely admit frequent and widespread meetings of the people living on either side of the LoC as also to permit more trading activities through additional routes through which more and more open hearted communications can be developed.
The Minister said that the government has decided to invest a sum of ` 20 crore for upgradation of the Trade Facilitation Centers at Salambad and Chakan Da Bagh during the next financial year.
The panel discussion was attended by a galaxy of intellectuals, academicians, Journalists and traders which include D. Sudhachander, Director, Institute of Peace & conflict Studies, New Delhi, YV Sharma, President, Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Jammu, Anil Suri, President, Bari-Brahmana Industrial Association, Jammu, Pawan Anand, President, Cross LoC Traders Association, Poonch.
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