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| It’s a season of ‘ban’ in Kashmir valley | | |
Srinagar, Nov 22
It is the time for seeking ban on one development or the other as far as militants and separatists in the Kashmir valley are concerned.On the heels of a cry over what the separatist call “Kashmir on sale” while referring to Government’s decision to given land on lease to local businessmen who could build hotels and huts at tourist resorts in collaboration with the nonstate subjects,Hizbul Mujahideen has imposed a ban on people sending their children to Delhi Public School in Srinagar and the Army schools.
Not only this: the Hizb has warned the kins of those who apply for jobs in the Indian security forces.The Hizb ban on Kashmiri children attending Delhi Public school in Srinagar or the Army schools is the result of its belief that these schools represent India in Kashmir.
In the same way both the factions of the Hurriyat Conference have opposed leasing of land for hotel construction to outsiders.The Tehrik Hurriyat Conference Chief,Syed Ali Shah Geelani,has described the Government decision to allow local people to build hotels and huts at tourist resorts in collaboration with people from outside the state as “part of the plan of Delhi to facilitate corporate occupation of Kashmir.”
Mr Geelani’s stand has received support from APHC Chairman, Molvi Umar Farooq. Both the leaders have called for a ban on entry of labourers, carpenters, masons from outside the state.
The Tourism Minister, Mr Dilawar Mir, has explained that the Government was not giving on lease any land in the tourist resorts to any outsider. He said only the state subjects were entitled to bid for the lease. He added that a provision had been made that the local businessmen and those connected with tourist trade could seek collaboration from non state subjects because local people had no sufficient money for building hotels and huts with modern facilities that could suit the tastes of “A” class tourists.
It is going to be a prolonged tussle between the separatists and the mainstream political leaders over these issues. |
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