JAMMU: Taking umbrage at the obnoxious proposal of the State Government to change the name of Jammu’s Cable Car Project besides Hindu shrines and Dogra historical sites in the State, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP accused the present dispensation and BJP in particular being hand in glove with its ally for establishing a sectarian homogeneity in the entire State.
Talking to reporters, Harsh said the Tourism Department had despicably changed the nomenclature of Mubarak Mandi-Bahu Fort Cable Car Project to ‘Mubarak Mandi-Shahbad’ Cable Car project which was highly reprehensible and unacceptable.
Expressing anguish over the nomenclature given to the project in recent tender notification of J and K State Cable Car Corporation Limited bearing NIT No. 01-JMU of 2017 dated 17th March, 2017, he said that the works to be executed were categorically solicited for ‘Shahbad Station of Cable Car Project at Shahbad, Jammu’ which had sent ripples of unrest to the people of entire Jammu Pradesh who were emotionally attached to the long cherished project. He divulged that on 5th March, 2014, the State Tourism Department and the Managing Director of J and K Cable Car Corporation had clarified that the name of the Cable Car Project was Peer Kho to Bahu Fort by issuing an official handout.
“They had clearly said that the take-off point would be near Peer Kho Shrine and the landing point would be near the Bahu Fort. The ropeway consisted of two sections. The Section-I with a length of 1,137 metre would be between Peer Kho and Mahamaya and the Section-II with 453 metre length from Mahamaya Park to the Bahu Fort. The project enhancing tourism potential of Jammu would comprise of a mono-cable detachable Gandola system of six seats for transporting 600 persons per hour with imported grips, rope, cabins and other critical components. But the clandestine change of the nomenclature of Jammu’s revered Cable Car Project had not only endorsed the communal ideology of the secessionists but also desecrated the Holy Shrines of Lord Shiva and Goddess Mahakali after whom the ropeway had been named”, furious Harsh said .
He said that Panthers Party shall not relent and resort to severe agitation unless the dream project saw the light of the day with actual title.