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| Allocation of funds should be in accordance to Finance Commission recommendations: Bhim Singh | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 21: Professor Bhim Singh, Chairman, J&K National Panthers Party and Member, National Integration Council has challenged the decision of the Planning Commission of India allocating Rs.6,600 crores to J&K without caring to determine the share of Ladakh and Jammu regions.
Additional sum of Rs.600 crore that has been added by the Planning Commission of India for the year 2011-12 as compared to the Plan Outlay in the previous year has not been marked clearly for the developmental works in Ladakh, Kashmir or Jammu.
Professor Bhim Singh said that Finance Commission headed by Dr. Mehmood-ur-Rehman has laid down the guidelines for the allocation of funds to each region considering the under developed status of almost all the Districts in Jammu region.
The Panthers Party Chairman in a letter addressed to Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India has urged for allocation of the Central funds meant for the developmental works or for the promotion of Central Schemes in Jammu and Kashmir in accordance with the need and requirement of each District.
He said that Jammu Pradesh (Jammu province) has double the area as compared to the Kashmir Valley whereas ¾th of the area in Jammu has no connectivity, health care or availability of drinking water in the rural areas. He said the Kandi areas of Jammu region are still passing through the 16 th century and the people are living in the stone-age, no drinking water, no electricity, no medical care, no road connectivity and no social security at all and no development except the rise in police stations and liquor shops only to the peril of innocent people.
Professor Bhim Singh demanded 50% of the Plan Outlay i.e. Rs.3300 crores for the development of Jammu with special Outlay for the development of tourism in the virgin lands of Kishtwar (Chhatru), Paddar, Kailash, Dudu-Basantgarh, Machel, Sudhmahadev-Lati, Kud-Batote, Panchari, Trunkote and other areas of Rajouri-Poonch which shall attract over five million foreign tourists every year if these places are developed on the pattern of Gulmarg and Pahalgam in the Valley.
Professor Bhim Singh demanded Rs.1000 crores economic package for Sudhmahadev-Mantalai-Marmat area development for international tourism which shall provide jobs to nearly 10,000 local skilled and unskilled unemployed.
Professor Bhim Singh urged the Prime Minister to allocate funds strictly in accordance with Finance Commission recommendations headed by Dr. Mehmood-ur-Rehman to avoid disparity and discrimination with the people of Jammu and Ladakh. The Panthers Party Chairman also demanded full account of the Plan Outlay and its allocation in 2010-11.
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