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Construct Mughal road

Sir,

For past 57 years people of twin districts of Rajouri & Poonch are crying hard to make Mughal route motorable but this demand was never fulfilled on an absurd notion that security of region shall be in jeopardy. Last year the Indian defence establishment was jolted to find concrete bunkers & huge stores of ammunition & grains at a full fledged terrorist training camp at Hill Kaka mountains in Poonch Districts. Now the so called defence strategists are feeling the need of roads in Peer Panjal mountains in Rajouri & Poonch for better patrolling & movement of security forces in high reaches. Army under good will mission have constructed a road to Hill Kaka by incurring huge expenditure from military funds. There is strong resentment brewing in all sections of people of Rajouri & Poonch as Govt. is still giving assurances only & people have doubts about the sincerity of Govt. as this ambitions project is gathering dust for last 30 years & already hundreds of crores have been spent on Mughal road project. The money always goes to private coffers of corrupt officials.

The Mughal road is 89 kms from Bufliaz in Poonch to shopian in Kashmir. Out of this 26 kms have already been made motorable as work on both sides was taken up. After its completion the road shall offer better connectivity to Kashmir valley than NH-1 which is highly prone to land slides as area in Udhampur, Batote, Ramban & Banihal is geologically unstable and is blocked in rains. Thousands of vehicles are stranded every year. The Mughal road shall be all weather roads as their is very little chance of land slides. The socio-economic condition of 20 lac people shall improve due to generation of employment & income from tourism as their is huge potential of pilgrimages, health and adventure tourism as these districts have places like Tatapani (Hot Water Springs-Kalakote), Mangla Mata (Nowshera), Shahdra Shrief (Thanamandi), Budha Amarnath & Nagali Sahib (Poonch). These places are visited by lacs of devotees from all over Indian every year. There are 27 lacs & seven margs (highland pastures) and pristine virgin pine groves, health resorts as Noori Chamb, Budhal & Mandi hitherto not exposed to outside world. The adventure sports as paragliding, tracking, snow skinning and rock climbing can be promoted in near future. The distance and time of travel from Poonch and Rajouri shall be drastically reduced from existing 588 & 518 Kms to 126 & 158 kms respectively. Besides this the horticulture industry of Kashmir shall get a boost due to better movement of traffic.

World is fast moving to a concept of global village and old heritage routes as silk route of China through Europe is being opened under world Heritage tourism. Likewise the Mughal route from Delhi to Srinagar via Lahore and Bhimber can be opened in South Asia under Heritage tourism and this decision shall go a long way for maintaining peace and harmony between people of sub continent. A Delhi-Lahore, Srinagar-Leh-Manali- Delhi royal safari can be started which will benefit both India & Pakistan without wasting any time. The Govt. of J&K & India must take this very important decision and complete the road is stipulated time. The Bhimber-Nowshera road should also be opened on the pattern of Muzafrabad-Uri road.

Yours etc...
Dr. Ram Chander Sharma
Chairman Refugee Welfare & Educational
Society Sunder Bani

Introduce Arabic studies in JU

Sir,

It is very strange that University of Jammu is not offering some subjects at PG level since the day of its creation. These subjects are : 1) Arabic, 2) Islamic Studies, 3) Persian

I want to highlight the problem of those students who have Arabic or Islamic studies or Persian as one of the main subjects in Graduation in Govt. Degree colleges of Jammu Division especially Govt. Degree College Rajouri etc etc. After completing their graduation if they want to do PG in the above said subjects then they have to wander in Kashmir University ;

Aligarh Muslim University ;Jamia Millia Islamia University etc.Most of the Universities are outside the J&K state and so the students have to suffer a lot .

Mufti Sahib has taken a bold step by introducing MCA and PG Chemistry in Govt. Degree College Rajouri and hence upgraded it as a PG college .But now an important problem which I have highlighted in the beginning must be sorted out by introducing the above said PG courses in University of Jammu or inside the campus of Degree College of distt Rajouri and Poonch.

It is further requested that there is no need to establish a school before starting Baba Ghulam Shah University ,Rajouri.It will be better that if PG courses like MCA,MSc/MA Math, MBA, Home Science are started in first phase (on the pattern of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University ) in the rented structures until the campus has its own two or three deptt facility, so that students and other people (employees) can be benefited without any further delay.I further request the CM J&K State to get a special package of Rs 50 crores or more ( for University) from the PM during his visit to J&K State , so that the University can be constructed as early as possible.

Yours etc...
Shehryar wani
Ward No 10 , Rajouri

 

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