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| Ponywallah strike keeps Gulmarg tense | | Will cancel registrations: Dir Tourism | | Early Times Report
srinagar,May 26: Gulmarg remained tense for the second consecutive day today as Ponywallas continued their protest. The protests evoked severe reaction from Director Tourism. He has plans to cancel registration of `troublesome' polywallas.
"They had taken tourists including Women and children hostage for so many hours on Friday which is totally intolerable and warrants a serious action." Director Tourism Talat Aziz said Saturday.
"Nobody is above law. We are not sparing anybody found involved in fuming the trouble", Talat said adding that Ponywallahs have been given registration for facilitating tourists. "They did not get registration to cause inconvenience to tourists", he lamented.
Talat said the process of identifying the trouble mongers was on. "It will take us a couple of days to cancel the registration", he said.
Pertinently Gulmarg was cut off from rest of the valley for hours on Friday when Ponywallahs blocked the Tangmarg-Gulmarg Road, demanding that vehicles should not be allowed to enter the meadow instead Ponywallahs should be given the sole responsibility to ferry the tourists to Bota Pathri.
Bota Pathri was thrown open by the State Government recently for tourism after nearly two decades. "It is an 11 Km stretch, how can we not allow vehicles to carry tourist there. If someone wants to ride the horse, we have no objection", Talat said. He said that some of the traders were even handed over to Police on Saturday at Gulmarg for 'cheating' tourists.
Meanwhile SHO Gulmarg Mohammad Ashraf said that the Ponywallahs later resorted to stone pelting in the evening. "They pelted stones on the Police station from a nearby hillock resulting in injuries to 5 police men and 2 CRPF personnel", he said, 3 among the Ponywallahs have also been reported to have sustained injuries.
Police had earlier dispersed the agitating Ponywallahs and thrown the road open for tourists.
Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) leader Ab. Qayoom Wani has condemned the police action on Ponywallahs and said that laborers and workers need to be taken care off.
Meanwhile Minister for Agriculture and the Local MLA, Ghulam Hassan Mir along with Deputy Commissioner Baramullah, Gh. Mohammad Khawja rushed to Kunzer on Saturday morning and held discussions with the protesting Pony Wallahs. "They have agreed to call off their strike till 4th of June when we will be taking a final decision in this regard." Deputy Commissioner Baramullah said.
He added that an important meeting has been scheduled on that day which will be attended by Ministers for Tourism Nawang Rigzan Jora and Agriculture Minster Gh. Hassan Mir apart from Director Tourism Talat Aziz and other stake holders. "We will take a final call in this regard in that meeting" added Khawja. |
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