By PTI
JAMMU: Indicating a thaw within the authorities’s stance on relocation of under-threat Kashmiri Pandit staff from the valley, Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday mentioned it’s higher to save lots of a human life even when it means closing down a dozen workplaces.
He additionally hit out on the opposition events accusing them of following the coverage of appeasement to the extent of being “inhuman”.
He alleged that these events not solely discriminated between folks but additionally went to the extent of discriminating between Line of Control and International Border purely for vote concerns.
“This should be addressed amicably and with sensitivity. My personal opinion is that nothing can be more valuable than a human life,” the minister advised reporters in Kathua.
“If there is a threat even to one life, it is better to save that life even if it means closing down a dozen offices.” Singh was in Kathua to put the muse stone of central PMGSY highway from Bakhta to Magloor in Jalota space.
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Addressing a public rally after the ceremony, Singh mentioned the earlier governments headed by opposition events crossed all limits of ethics and propriety once they allowed reservation for folks dwelling alongside LoC however denied the identical advantages to the folks dwelling alongside the IB.
“They did so because their MLAs were elected from the areas along the LoC, some of whom also became the ministers. They denied the same benefit to the people living along IB or on the Pakistan border, mostly in Kathua and Samba districts, because the people here did not vote for them,” the Union minister mentioned.
He mentioned this discrepancy was corrected solely after the Modi authorities got here to energy when the folks dwelling close to the IB got justice with the grant of 4 per cent reservation, the identical as folks dwelling alongside LoC.
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Singh additionally mentioned the federal government was making efforts to arrange a satellite tv for pc hospital and Tata Cancer Centre in Kathua.
“This will provide the latest hi-tech facility for cancer patients from J&K, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh.”
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On Keedian Gandyal bridge, he mentioned it was not constructed during the last 70 years as a result of it will have benefitted mere 2,000 folks, however “we had the courage and conviction to construct a bridge for these people at a cost of over Rs 150 Crore”.
Along the route of the holy Machil Yatra earlier than 2014 there have been neither bogs, nor cellular connectivity, nor electrical energy as a result of these folks didn’t determine of their checklist of the vote financial institution, he mentioned.
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“It is this government which set up toilets and mobile towers there and recently sanctioned one exclusive solar power plant for the village,” he added.
Referring to one of many first Industrial Biotech Parks which has been arrange in Kathua, Singh mentioned folks will realise its price over a time frame.
He mentioned that because of the Modi authorities the Shahpur Kandi mission was revived after 40 years, and the Ujh multipurpose irrigation mission, which was conceived for the first-time throughout Maharaja’s rule, can be scheduled to take off very quickly.
JAMMU: Indicating a thaw within the authorities’s stance on relocation of under-threat Kashmiri Pandit staff from the valley, Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday mentioned it’s higher to save lots of a human life even when it means closing down a dozen workplaces.
He additionally hit out on the opposition events accusing them of following the coverage of appeasement to the extent of being “inhuman”.
He alleged that these events not solely discriminated between folks but additionally went to the extent of discriminating between Line of Control and International Border purely for vote concerns.
“This should be addressed amicably and with sensitivity. My personal opinion is that nothing can be more valuable than a human life,” the minister advised reporters in Kathua.
“If there is a threat even to one life, it is better to save that life even if it means closing down a dozen offices.” Singh was in Kathua to put the muse stone of central PMGSY highway from Bakhta to Magloor in Jalota space.
ALSO READ| Chalk out center path to deal with problems with Kashmiri Pandits: Mehbooba Mufti
Addressing a public rally after the ceremony, Singh mentioned the earlier governments headed by opposition events crossed all limits of ethics and propriety once they allowed reservation for folks dwelling alongside LoC however denied the identical advantages to the folks dwelling alongside the IB.
“They did so because their MLAs were elected from the areas along the LoC, some of whom also became the ministers. They denied the same benefit to the people living along IB or on the Pakistan border, mostly in Kathua and Samba districts, because the people here did not vote for them,” the Union minister mentioned.
He mentioned this discrepancy was corrected solely after the Modi authorities got here to energy when the folks dwelling close to the IB got justice with the grant of 4 per cent reservation, the identical as folks dwelling alongside LoC.
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Singh additionally mentioned the federal government was making efforts to arrange a satellite tv for pc hospital and Tata Cancer Centre in Kathua.
“This will provide the latest hi-tech facility for cancer patients from J&K, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh.”
ALSO READ| Will flip colonies into ‘graveyards’, militants to Pandits
On Keedian Gandyal bridge, he mentioned it was not constructed during the last 70 years as a result of it will have benefitted mere 2,000 folks, however “we had the courage and conviction to construct a bridge for these people at a cost of over Rs 150 Crore”.
Along the route of the holy Machil Yatra earlier than 2014 there have been neither bogs, nor cellular connectivity, nor electrical energy as a result of these folks didn’t determine of their checklist of the vote financial institution, he mentioned.
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“It is this government which set up toilets and mobile towers there and recently sanctioned one exclusive solar power plant for the village,” he added.
Referring to one of many first Industrial Biotech Parks which has been arrange in Kathua, Singh mentioned folks will realise its price over a time frame.
He mentioned that because of the Modi authorities the Shahpur Kandi mission was revived after 40 years, and the Ujh multipurpose irrigation mission, which was conceived for the first-time throughout Maharaja’s rule, can be scheduled to take off very quickly.
