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| Border villagers criticise Ansari's views on Op Sadbhavana | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Nov 3: People living in the border villages of the districts of Poonch, Rajouri, Kupwara besides certain belts in Gurez, Karnah, Keran are highly critical of the views of M.M.Ansari, one among the three interlocutors, on the Operation Sadbhavana in Jammu and Kashmir.
Harjit singh of Poonch, Mohd Ansari of Rajouri and several senior citizens of Kupwara said that since 1998, when the Army launched the Operation Sadbhavana," several lakhs of people in the border villages in Jammu and Kashmir were benefitted from various activities including construction of roads, micro hydel power projects and renovation and construction of scores of school buildings.
Mohd.Dilawar of Rajouri said that so far the Army had built 975 micro hydel power projects and in most of them have been nonfunctional as it is the fault of the state Government. He said against this the state Government has not added a single mini power project in the border areas.
Referring to Ansari's statement in which he has stated that "it is not the job of the Army to provide education, health and other facilities" border villagers said that had not the Army initiated meaures "our villages would have never tasted the benefits of proper infrastructure in the sectors of health and education."
They said number of villages had been adopted by the Army and it was for people like Ansari to compare the pace of development in these villages with those hamlets not adopted by the Army. They said teams of Army doctors have been holding camps in farflung and remote villages where people have and continue to receive free medical checkup and medicines.
The border villagers said that there are a number of villages in the border belts in Jammu an Kashmir where there are either no Government run dispensaries or these dispensaries remain invariably shut in the face of lack of medicines and on account of frequent truants being played by the doctors and paramedics.
They urged the Defence Ministry and the Army headquarters to increase the annual allocations on Operation Sadbhavana so that people got better roads, education and health care. They said that if there is a close rapport between the Army and the people in the border areas it is because of the operation Sadbhavana that has bridged the gulf between the two side.(KIP)
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