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Visualizing J&K as an international trading destination
Zafar Bhat. Dated: 3/20/2018 11:43:27 AM
Zafar Bhat
Jammu, Mar 19
The hope that Jammu & Kashmir opens up to the world as an international trading destination through land routes, realizing its geopolitical situation, as part of a peaceful region, expressed many times by ruling government but the pre-requisitely timely implementation is a desideratum.
However, for the decades the State has been the recipient of major cultural, social and economic influences from the areas of Silk route from the past seven centuries. These influences once used contextually, would help in making the State a hub of economic activity in the region.
Whereas, the efforts of Government in this direction are shown in two dray ports are being set up at Jammu and Srinagar to get the goods from the State to the international market in a hassle-free manner. Amid this with such an easy mode of transportation, the agri and horticultural produce from the State would get a quality international market. It is requisite to build the trust between the business communities of the State and outside and also mark the beginning of the establishment of the State as a major international trading centre.x
The local artisans depicting the inclusive and colourful outlook of the people living here. The government should provide a meeting ground to the artisans of the State, entrepreneurs and the trading community to promote the arts and crafts of the State and build a relationship of trust and sustained interest with their outside counterparts.
Notably, the artisan community of the State have always kept the distinctive crafts alive despite distressing times in the past, it was the craftspersons community who kept the things moving when many of the economic parameters in the State were not so good during the last three decades. Pertinently, Our artisans do not use their fingers and hands only, they give their blood and soul to produce the artefacts J&K is known for. The government should promote and strengthen the handicraft sector for an economically welfare state.