Declare Pir Panjal region as a backward special category region to reduce regional imbalance: Javed Rana
MENDHAR,08-06-2023: Javed Ahmed Rana President JKNC Pirpanjal region and former MLA Mendhar tears on the present dispensation over regional imbalance and income irregularities in the erstwhile state Jammu and Kashmir and urged the government to take necessary step to reduce it by taking immediate necessary measures.
Rana urged that the government should work to improve the per capita state income figures to reduce the regional imbalance and disparity by making land reform and redistribution of surplus and unused land by giving ownership right to the landless and underprivileged classes to improve their level hard.
Rana said that the Finance Commission of India must give due weightage to the backwardness of the Pir Panjal region as an important livelihood for resource transfer from the Centre to the backward and special category region of Pirpanjal and that may be in the shape of a special central assistant for this backward region, in the state plan, Non-Plan and allocation of fund for centrally sponsored schemes allocation of broth short term and long term credit from financial institution etc.
Javed Rana also emphasized a special area development programme in order to develop its hilly areas tribal areas, border areas drought-prone areas specific plan scheme must be prepared with full development be formulated for the improvement of specific groups such as marginal farmers and agricultural labourers for the inhabitants of the backward region.
Rana said the government must ensure social security measures for the workers to be considered as an important step towards the reduction of income inequalities. Some social security provisions for the workers engaged in the organized second workmen’s compensation for providing compensation in case of any injury to industrial workers, and maternity benefit for women workers and employees.
Rana said that with the growing menace of the unemployment problem in the Pirpanjal region, the Government of India must introduce some special employment programmes since the Fourth Plan onwards in order to provide some relief and scope for gainful employment to the unemployed. These programs include Crash Scheme for Rural Unemployment, the Drought Prone Areas Programme, Food for Work Programme, self-employment schemes for engineers, employment schemes for educated unemployment etc.
The former Legislator urged the government to grant Backward Region special status to the Pir Panjal area with the objective of socio-economic development of the region.
