Excelsior Correspondent
MENDHAR, Sept 12: Javed Ahmed Rana president JKNC Pir Panjal region and former MLA Mendhar assailed the present dispensation over regional imbalance and income irregularities in the erstwhile state Jammu and Kashmir and urged the government to take necessary steps to reduce it by taking immediate necessary measures.
Addressing a press conference here today, the former Legislator urged the Government to improve the per capita state income figures to reduce the regional imbalance and disparity by making land reform and redistribution of surplus and unused land by giving ownership rights to the landless and under privileged classes to improve their level hard.
Javed Rana said that Finance Commission of India must give due concession to backwardness of Pir Panjal region as an important livelihood for resource transfer from the Centre to the backward and special category region of Pirpanjal and that may be in the shape of special central assistant for this backward region, in the State Plan, Non Plan and allocation of fund for Centrally sponsored schemes allocation of both short term and long term credit from financial institutions.
Rana also emphasized an special area development programme in order to develop its hilly areas tribal area, border area drought prone areas specific plan scheme must be prepared with full development be formulated for the improvement of specific group such as marginal farmers and agricultural labourers for the inhabitants of backward region.
Rana said the Government must ensure social security measures for the workers to be considered as an important step towards reduction of income inequalities. Some social security provisions for the workers engaged in the organized second workmen’s compensation for providing compensation in case of any injury to industrial workers, maternity benefit for women workers and employees.
Rana said that with the growing menace of unemployment problem in the Pir Panjal region, the Government of India must introduce some special employment programmes. These programmes include Crash Scheme for Rural Unemployment, the Drought Prone Areas Programme, Food for Work Programme, Self-employment Schemes for engineers, employment schemes for educated unemployed.
The former Legislator urged the Government to grant Backward Region with special status to Pir Panjal area with an objective of socio economic development of the region. He also demanded establishment of Industrial Estate in the area.
He raised serious concern over poor road network in the Pir Panjal range. He demanded probe in the roads constructed under the PMGSY and NABARD in the entire Pir Panjal range.
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