Mess on roads
The frequency of traffic accidents has shot up at an alarming pace much to the shock and scare of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. If one goes by the reported cases of road accidents, the menace is taking a great toll on human lives now than it was ever before. Some years back stray […]
Kashmir first
Living in a world awash in violent conflict is certainly not a very pleasing thought. Given that the tradition of hatred and capacity for destruction are expanding and surging, and conflicts are playing out in an era when the ability to destroy life and property is without limit. No wonder that in the early years […]
Need to correct collective behaviour
Protesting against human rights violations or for that matter any genuine cause or concern is ok, but then one needs to draw a line somewhere about the nature of such protests. For instance, taking to streets too can be a justified action but only as long as it does not violate other persons’ safety and […]
Problem of beggary
During the holy month Ramazan, District administration in Srinagar invoked law to keep beggary under bay. And the results were pretty impressive. But now the beggars have once again returned to the streets and are doing their “business’ without any hassles. Though a social evil, but here in the Valley the mendicancy has been flourishing […]
Encroach-and-get-rehabilitated
Governor N N Vohra was informed Saturday (Jul 21) that around 18 lakh Kanals of state land are under the encroachments throughout the state. In a high-level meeting, Financial Commissioner, Housing and Urban Development Department, informed Vohra that these encroachments are on the Government, Panchayat and Forest lands in the State in gross violation of […]
Help yourself!
If the devastating ethnography of the raw realities of life and history in Jammu and Kashmir are looked into, it goes without saying that the most vital chunk of the society – our youth – are not only a disarrayed and disturbed lot but they are also exhausted in terms of their hope for a […]
Faulty spending
It goes without saying that the successive governments in Jammu and Kashmir have been face to face with a severe social and economic decline here. In post-2002 Jammu and Kashmir, the state governments have remained very vocal about bringing peace through development and this line of action has been shared, endorsed and supported by the […]
Agrarian mess
Jammu and Kashmir has been lavishly bestowed with a wealth of resources by nature, which if exploited judiciously and scientifically could unburden people from seemingly unavoidable dependence on neighbouring states for essential commodities like food-grains. The soil of the state is very fertile and the yield per hectare could be astounding if only the farmers […]
Risking public health
Government and its various agencies have to ensure semblance of law everywhere within the territorial parameters of the state. Besides the big political and developmental issues, even everything mundane, if it concerns people of the state, too is within the government’s mandate, enjoining upon it to ensure that masses are not troubled. This is exactly […]
‘People-friendly policing’
Kashmir’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) Swayam Prakash Pani Sunday called for “people-friendly” policing. Addressing a gathering of policemen and officials at District Police Lines, Handwara, Pani stressed on the officials and policemen to adopt a “people-friendly attitude” while discharging their duties so as to improve the police-public relations, which eventually could help police in […]
