Dr Jitendra welcomes Union Cabinet's decision..

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 2/21/2019 12:43:24 PM


New Delhi, Feb 20
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh has hailed the decision of the Union Cabinet under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to approve for the State of Jammu & Kashmir, implementation of the provision of 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) as well as the provision for reservation in promotion for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).
Pertinent to mention that both these issues came up for discussion in the Union Cabinet which agreed for giving these an immediate effect in Jammu & Kashmir. The State is presently under the President's rule.
Addressing the media here today, Dr Jitendra Singh also welcomed the Government's decision to provide reservation to the residents of International Border (IB) at par with LoC. This, he said, will end an injustice meted out by the past governments which had tended to discriminate between one section of border residents and the other section of the border residents, purely on the vote bank consideration. This was also a long standing demand of the people living, particularly in Kathua and Samba districts, he added.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that these decisions of the Union Cabinet will enable the State of Jammu & Kashmir to take the benefit of revolutionary reforms introduced by the Modi Government.
While 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections will give the benefit of job reservation to those candidates who are deserving because of their lower economic strata. Similarly, reservation in promotion for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes will help addressing a section of society which had been long struggling for it.
While thanking the Union Cabinet for both the decisions with regard to Jammu & Kashmir, Dr Jitendra Singh said, these decisions are undoubtedly the result of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's extremely sensitive concern for this peripheral State and added that in the last 65 years, no earlier government had ever taken an initiative on these lines and even now these decisions have come forth in the interest of Jammu & Kashmir because of the Modi Government being at the helm at the Centre.
Dr Jitendra Singh hoped that the State of Jammu & Kashmir, which has been at the receiving end of a protracted nightmare of militancy, will receive a path-breaking benefit from these decisions. He said, these two decisions are a part of the continuation of series of decisions taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last five years, in a bid to bring Jammu & Kashmir at par with the other States of India. He recalled that the highest-ever Prime Minister's package of Rs.80,000 crore was granted to Jammu & Kashmir by Narendra Modi and even in his most recent visit to the State on 3rd February, he launched projects worth Rs.5,000 crore.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited Jammu & Kashmir over a dozen times in the last five years, said Dr Jitendra Singh, and on each occasion, he has launched some of the historical and first-ever projects. These include Chenani-Nashri Road Tunnel, which is the longest state-of-the-art tunnel in the whole of Asia, 1000 MW Pakkal-Dhul Power Project in Kishtwar, two AIIMS for the State, Devika River Rejuvenation National Project, Shahpur-Kandi Project, which had been stalled by the earlier governments for the last 40 years, the first-ever University for Ladakh, Ring Road for capital cities of Srinagar and Jammu, etc, he added.

 

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