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| Ignoring Jammu, Srinagar gets International Trade Centre | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 10: Even as Jammu is the hub centre of trade and manufacturing, the State Government ignoring its potential is building International Trade Centre at Pampore, district Pulwama, Kashmir (J&K) at the cost of Rs 40 crores.
The financial assistance by Centre is given from Assistance to States for Development of Export Infrastructure and other Allied Activities (ASIDE) with an aim to hold national/international trade fairs, buyer-seller meet.
The Centre would give financial assistance of Rs 30 crores.
The State Government has set the process of constructing this centre after an international buyers meet was held in Srinagar recently.
The centre in Valley, despite the fact that it already has Sher-e-Kashmir International Centre, which has capacity and infrastructure to hold such meets, as it has done this year, without putting extra burden on the State ex-chequer.
This clearly shows the skewed priorities of the State Government putting Kashmir at premium while ignoring Jammu and Ladakh. The decision of the Government to build another centre reflects the hallow slogans of the Chief Minister who is claiming that Government is committed to equitable development of all three regions of the State.
Jammu continues to get second-class treatment in the present Omar led Government.
The Government has sanctioned Rs 2 crores for renovation of Tagore Hall Srinagar but only Rs 1 crore for Abhinav Theater. The fly-over at Bikram Chowk here gets Rs 65 crores while a similar fly-over is being given Rs 126 crores in Kashmir.
Not only that despite commitment by the then Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, no headway has been made for the construction of international centre at Jammu to be build along the lines of SKICC.
The State Government gets maximum taxes from Jammu as major industries are established here.
The industry is demanding for long time that a container depot should be build here but it's being ignored because of the Kashmir centre policies of the Government.
The Government doesn't have to dole out funds for it, the Centre has enough schemes under which funds can be given but Omar led State Government just doesn't want to do it as it is more interested in all weather Mughal road which was dream project of Sheikh Abdullah the late Chief Minister and grandfather of Omar Abdullah. |
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