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| Why should industrialists invest in hostile state? | | Unhappy Omar | | Rustam
JAMMU, Jan 28: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has bemoaned the negative response of industrialist to invest in Jammu and Kashmir. "Industrialists have not given any encouraging response on investing in the State despite repeated proposals sent to them. The response is not very encouraging," he yesterday said. He made this observation while speaking on the sidelines of the release of a "Perception survey of media impact on the Kashmiri youth" at the prestigious India International Centre, New Delhi. The survey was conducted on behalf of the Union Home Minister and the districts covered were Srinagar and Budgam in Central Kashmir, Anantnag and Kulgam in South Kashmir and Baramulla and Bandipora in North Kashmir. The survey was conducted by the Institute for Research on India and International Studies (IRIIS) under the supervision of Navnita Chadha Behera.
Omar Abdullah should not bemoan. Instead, he and other Kashmiri leaders should sit up to find why industrialists refuse to invest in Jammu and Kashmir. They would get the answer in no time if they undertake such an exercise dispassionately and with an open mind. They would find that it is the hostile environment created by them that has discouraged industrialists to invest in the state in general and Kashmir Valley in particular. They are squarely responsible. Why should the industrialists invest in the state where the Kashmiri leadership has been demanding demilitarisation, autonomy, independence, and even Pakistan; where the extremists are ruling the roost and seeking to give Islamic orientation to the polity, society and economy?
It is the state of uncertainty created by the Kashmiri leadership and its supporters in the New Delhi's South and North Blocks; it is their hostile attitude towards India and the Indian Constitution; and it is the insistence of a section of Kashmiri leaders like Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq to Islamise the whole economy that have deterred and discouraged industrialists to invest not only in the militant-infested and disturbed Kashmir Valley, but also in the otherwise peaceful Jammu province. They cannot invest in Kashmir because the environment there is very hostile; they want to invest in Jammu but they cannot do so because the Kashmiri leadership doesn't really want them to invest in this peaceful province, which is easily accessible and highly conducive for industrial growth.
These are some of the factors which have discouraged industrialists to invest in Jammu and Kashmir. If Omar Abdullah and others of his ilk really wish the industrialists' investment in the state, then they have no other alternative left but to eschew the path they have been following since decades with a view to ensuring the Kashmir Valley's segregation from the Indian mainstream. You just can't hate India and induce the Indian industrialists to invest in the state at the same time. |
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