REAL NORMALCY

There has been a “fake normalcy” in Jammu and Kashmir since Independence under the garb of Article 370, and after its abrogation, now there is real normalcy there.
How can we say there was normalcy in Kashmir earlier when the Constitution of India was not applicable there? We were shown fake normalcy since 1947 under the garb of Article 370. Now, after the removal of 370, Kashmir has real normalcy.
Kashmiris were denied rights enshrined by Constitution all these years.
After the removal (of Art 370), 890 central laws have now become applicable to Jammu and Kashmir. The removal will give people their rights. The rights that were enshrined in the Constitution made by Dr Ambedkar are now available to the people of Kashmir.
This country cannot have two symbols, two PMs and two Constitutions, when we have a Constitution we respect and revere.
Highest ever tourist footfall of 50,33,956 from October 2021 to January 2022. This would not have been possible if the environment was not conducive. 40,000 projects were completed in 2021-22 as against 9229 in 2018-19.
Unemployment figures as reported by the CMIE, had fallen to 13.2 per cent now. “There have been 11000 employment in government through fair means.
Ragarding terrorism, all indicators of terrorism were falling. “There has been 33 per cent drop in police persons martyred. There has been 90 per cent decrease in ceasefire violations. As against 937 incidents in 2020, the reported incidents were 98.
During the past two years, the UT has been marching on the path of development as a result of the Government’s initiatives, which included various developmental schemes executed under the Prime Minister Development Package (PMDP) focusing on individual beneficiaries and reviving long-pending projects lying dormant for several decades by removing the obstacles, through ensuring effective and transparent administration.
Both the Union and the UT Governments have been leveraging technology to provide a number of benefits to the local population of the UT. In the field of IT, a number of procedures have been framed such as providing “subsidy on rent” to the outside investors, building two large sizes IT parks (spread over half a million square feet) – one each in Jammu and Srinagar.
Among some other initiatives, the UT administration also released a real estate policy equipped with a transparent bidding process to disburse government-created “Land Banks” to private developers. The all-around developmental approach adopted by the J&K government has a special focus on developing a network of roads and highways only.
In order to ensure growth in the valley and enable the UT to come at par with the other states of the country, almost all the projects across various sectors that were ignored during the past political regimes, have been infused with new life.

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