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| Biased Delhi according a preferential treatment to Kashmir | | Discriminating Between Lakes -- I | | NEHA
JAMMU, Oct 16: Will Jammu province ever attract New Delhi's attention? Will New Delhi ever treat Jammu province equally with Kashmir? What wrong has the people of Jammu province committed for which they are being consistently ignored, overlooked and despised? Does not Jammu contribute more than 70 per cent revenue to the state exchequer every year? Has the New Delhi's generous policy towards Kashmir produced the desired results and succeeded in integrating it politically and constitutionally into India in the real sense of the term?
Jammu province, it appears, will never attract the biased New Delhi's attention. Nor will Jammu province be treated equally with Kashmir. The only fault of the people of Jammu province is that they believe in the constitutional method of protest and that they have seldom taken the law of the land into their hands despite grave provocations. The only fault of the people of Jammu province is that they contribute more to the exchequer as compared to Kashmir and that they are committed to India and the Indian Constitution. Their only fault is that they are for the unity and integrity of India and that they do subscribe to the ideology the Kashmiri leadership preaches and forces down the nation's throat. Their only fault is that they refrain from replicating Telangana in Jammu in what they proudly call the "national interest". New Delhi would continue to pander to Kashmiri separatism and communalism, treat it with kid gloves and pump in Kashmir more and more hard-earned Indian rupees in its desperate bid to cultivate it, notwithstanding the fact that all of its efforts and generosity have gone down the drain. New Delhi would continue to announce one package after the other to keep the Kashmiri leadership and Kashmiri people in good humour overlooking the fact that the more it has invested in Kashmir more troubles it has invited from them. The fact of the matter is that the people of Jammu province are destined to suffer and the people of Kashmir province destined to rule and enjoy all worldly comforts. The fact of the matter is that New Delhi has lost sense and that it would continue to behave irresponsibly, thus weakening the nationalist constituency in the state and promoting seditionists.
One can cite here hundreds of instances to indicate the New Delhi bias and contempt for Jammu province. But there is no need to catalogue here all such instances, as even a naïve or a lay person in Jammu province is fully aware of the policies New Delhi and Kashmir have been evolving and ruthlessly implementing to further develop the already rather developed Kashmir and further jeopardize the already rather marginalized and politically neglected Jammu. However, it would be desirable to refer here to the latest instance indicating the New Delhi's bias against Jammu and in favour of Kashmir.
The case in point is the October 11 "extensive review of the conservation and management" of Dal and Nageen lakes in Kashmir. It was Union Environment and Forests Secretary, T. Chatterjee, who, along with a team of officers and scientists of the ministry, took an "extensive review of the conservation and management of Dal and Nageen lakes". He was informed by the concerned officials that "substantial progress has been achieved on the activities like catchment area development, sewage and sewerage treatment works, hydraulic works, restoration and development Works". He was further informed that "two new sewage treatment plants with capacity to treat 16.1 MLD and 5.4 MLD of sewage at Brari Numbal and Nallah Amir Khan, respectively, are under construction and expected to be commissioned by March 2012". Besides, the Union Secretary was informed that "in respect of STPs in operation, 85 per cent of houses have been connected with these STPs" and that "a trunk sewer line of 25 kms has been laid in addition to the lateral secondary catchment".
As for Chatterjee, he "appreciated the progress achieved in the implementation of the project and assured support of the ministry for sanction of resettlement and rehabilitation project for the relocation of Dal dwellers". He, in addition, "advised the officers to explore the possibility for extraction of methane gas and generation of electricity that could be utilized to run the STPs and other installations being set up under the project" and also "agreed to provide technical and funding support for the purpose". Not only this, Chatterjee also "inspected the lake interiors, along with the team, and took stock of the cleaning measures launched in lake waters". (To be continued)
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