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| Promote people to people contact to reduce trust deficit between J&K, rest of India | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 28: When a group of teachers from Noida (UP) travel to Bandipore, in North Kashmir, next month, to interact with their counterparts and the student community in the Valley's remote area, it would be part of the Army 's initiative on promoting people to people contact.
The teachers and students of Step by Step school in Noida were thrilled during their interaction with a group of teachers from Bandipore. The initiative for promoting interaction between teachers from Bandipore and Noida had been taken by the Army.
Zahida, one of the teachers from Bandipore, was highly pleased with the new methodology being adopted by the teachers in the schools in Noida. The main purpose of the interaction, more such are in the pipeline, between the teachers from Jammu and Kashmir and those in North India was to help the teaching community to learn new methodologies and adopt various modern teaching and learning practices.
Political observers and sociologists are of the opinion that there is need for promoting people to people contact not only between Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan held Kashmir but also between Jammu and Kashmir and rest of the country. Explaining it they said that over the last three decades people in Jammu and Kashmir, mostly in the Valley, have been forced to lead a living in isolation. This had developed in their mind certain misconceptions about India and its people.
These observers say that these misconceptions and illusions can be removed only if Government agencies and NGOs initiate measures for promoting people to people contact.
The Army, to a large extent, and the paramilitary forces have played a key role in promoting people to people contact between Jammu and Kashmir and rest of the country during the last 15 years.
Under the Army's ambitious Operation Sadhbhavana scores of school students were taken to various cities and towns of India where they interacted with a cross-section of people and visited several historic places and shrines. Apart from these school kids, the Army arranged Bharat Darshan for senior citizens, panches and for women too.
On their return to their places of birth, these students were seen sharing their experiences with their friends, family members and neighbours. Some of them were heard telling their parents that their trip to various Indian cities was a trip from darkness to light.
It is time the State Government followed the Army's plan on promoting people to people contact between Jammu and Kashmir and rest of the country for the purpose of reducing the trust deficit that exists between the people in Jammu and Kashmir and those living in the plains of India.
The State Government should either set up a separate department for this purpose or earmark funds for footing the expenses on people to people contact programme. |
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