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| Chenab Valley economically, strategically important: Mufti | | ’NC regimes responsible for Doda's backwardness’ | | early times report
Doda, Sept 5: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) today assured to formulate a comprehensive action plan for the socio-economic growth of the people of Chenab Valley. Party further assured that backwardness and underdevelopment of this region would be removed by implementing this comprehensive action plan.
Addressing an impressive public meeting, organized in connection with the foundation day of the party, patron of PDP Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said that Chenab Valley area was economically as well as strategically important region in the whole sub-continent due to availability of huge natural resources in the form of water and forest in this belt.
He, however, regretted that instead of improving socio-economic conditions of the local people of Chenab Valley, the exploitation of water and forest resources has resulted into ecological degradation and destabilization of geological features and a disruption in peaceful lives of common citizens. He strongly demanded that services of international experts should be utilized to maintain ecological balance in this belt. "Instead of giving benefits to the available resources to the residents of Chenab Valley, the rulers only bartered away the forest and water resources for their personal power", Sayeed said, while mentioning towards grossly discriminatory agreements singed by the successive National Conference regimes.
Exhorting party workers to agitate for their genuine demands, PDP patron demanded that locals should be given priority in the new hydro-electric projects and other developmental activities going on in this belt. "Instead of appointing locals on small petty jobs, the agencies engaged in executing the hydro-electric projects must open training centres here to train the local unemployed youth so as to engage them on technical and skilled jobs", he demanded, adding, "employment opportunities for locals must be created while constructing hydro-electric projects in this belt.
Reiterating his party's resolve to ensure justice to all regions and sub-regions, PDP patron said the Self Rule proposal was about empowerment of all sections of society irrespective of cast creed or religion.
Speaking on the occasion, former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Beigh blamed successive National Conference regimes for the backwardness of Chenab Valley region.
Referring to the acute backwardness of the Chenab Valley region, Beigh said that while most parts of the country were benefited by the water flowing from it, the region itself was steeped in to darkness and backwardness. "Due to availability of natural resources Chenab Valley is the most important place in the whole sub-continent but this region remained neglected and ignored", he maintained and said that successive National Conference regimes were responsible for the backwardness and underdevelopment of this region. "It was only during PDP led regime the Chenab Valley region was brought on the map of development but after formation of the present Omar Abdullah led government all developmental projects have been stopped", he said and reminded the gathering during PDP led regime various developmental projects were initiated in this belt, which was ignored and neglected by the successive National Conference regimes for decades together. He especially mentioned that some projects which were started during the regime of Ghulam Nabi Azad were also stopped midway.
Expressing his deep concern over non availability of basic amenities in this belt, former Deputy Chief Minister regretted that various Central sponsored poverty alleviation schemes were not reaching this belt due to prevailing mess in the State. "Needy and deserving people are not getting benefits of the poverty alleviation schemes like MGNREGA, IAY as these schemes implemented only on papers", he pointed out and added that instead of properly implementing these schemes on ground level, such schemes remained only on papers.
Senior PDP leader and MLC Sayeed Asgar Ali moved a resolution in the meeting which was passed with one voice.
Prominent among those who addressed the meeting included Peer Mohammad Hussain, former Minister, Thakur Balbir Singh, Sayeed Asgar Ali, Dr Muzaffar, Sheikh Mujib, Advocate Imtiyaz, Vijay Katoch, Nicos Domas, Mohinder Kotwal, Rehamatullah, Abdul Majid Bhat, Talib Hussain, Shoukat Daing, Imtiayaz Khanday, Abdul Rehman Kashmiri, Shakir Saddiqui, Ashok Sen, Riyaz Zarger, Parveen Akthar, Farooq Sadiqui, Mohammad Latif, Shakil Singh Bhagat, Suresh Sharma, Umar Malik, Shahnawaz Mir, Farooq Choudhary, Salim Javed Magray, Naim Ahmed Ansari and others. |
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