Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 8: PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry has urged upon the Union Government to restore internet services in the Jammu and Kashmir as it has badly affected the tourism and Mata Vaishno Devi pilgrimage.
A meeting of Executive Committee of PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry was held here today wherein, besides felicitating the outgoing Chairman of PHDCCI Vikrant Kuthiala and remembering its first Chairman Late Ram Sahai, it was unanimously decided that authorities be urged upon to restore the Internet services in peaceful areas of Jammu Region particularly the route of Vaishno Devi Yatra right from Lakhanpur to Vaishno Devi ji which comes while travelling through road or train and particularly Kathua, Samba, Jammu, Reasi, Udhampur districts immediately because these areas are altogether peaceful.
Rakesh Wazir, chairman of the PHDCCI while speaking on the occasion said that the route of Vaishno Devi right from Lakhanpur to Mata Vaishno Devi was always peaceful and not even single incident of militancy or even otherwise ever happened over here and in those conditions the ban on pretext of militancy or revoking of 370 is really surprising and be removed immediately because total economy of state is on Vaishno Devi pilgrims and these type of steps will reduce it further which have already come down by more than 20 lakh in comparison to 2012. He further said that this ban is effecting the information technology sector too in a big way and giving big dent to employment.
Kuthiala while speaking on the occasion thanked the members for their support during his tenure as chairman of the Chamber and assured his full support to Wazir as new chairman and new team of Chamber.
Rahul Sahai while appreciating work of Mr Kuthiala hailed work in past years by the outgoing chairman and also hailed strong coordination with Government agencies of PHDCCI. Sahai also applauded that Rakesh Wazir who is also very active in the activities.
The Chamber appointed Virender Kesar as president/ convenor for Reasi district, with the charge of the Chamber for Katra town as well.
The meeting among others was attended by Co-Chairman Kuldip Gupta, Sanjay Aggarwal, Ajay Kotwal, Ajay Gandotra, Sanjay Gupta, Harbinder Singh, Darshan Lal and others.
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