Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 25: BJP State president & MLA Sat Sharma (C.A.), while reiterating that Modi Government is committed to overall development of the State, termed the Union Cabinet decision to introduce provision for ex-gratia assistance/compensation of rupees five lakh to the families of the victims of cross-border firing, landmines explosions and IED explosions in the border areas a landmark decision.
Talking to media persons here today along with BJP general secretary, Dr Narinder Singh and Spokesman Balbir Ram Rattan, Mr Sharma said this way the long pending demand of the people of the State will be fulfilled. The people living in borders touching neighboring countries, Pakistan in particular, have been suffering losses of lives and receiving severe injuries due to firing from across the border, explosions of landmines and IEDs, for decades and the successive governments at the Centre never took a human view of the problems and plight of the border people, he added.
He said even the successive governments in the State also took a lenient view to the demand of border people over the years.
Sat Sharma said that the landmark decision will also bring all the border areas of the country at a common level as J&K had been ignored in the past in matters related to extending assistance/compensation in case of injuries or loss of lives due to cross border firing and explosions of landmines and IEDs despite the fact our people on borders had been the most affected. He expressed gratitude to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for this landmark decision taken in the Cabinet meeting.
He said this shows how much concerned the BJP and its government under Narendra Modi has been towards border people. It can be well judged from the fact that during the last two years NDA took a number of decisions for the benefit of border people. In August 2014, when border people were putting up in camps on their migration due to firing from across Pakistan, BJP national President Amit Shah visited their camps in R.S. Pura, Bishnah and other places and was stressed upon to provide them assistance / compensation in case of the causalities and injuries by cross border firing and explosions of mines and IEDs. The party as well as, Union MoS Dr. Jitendra Singh, Lok Sabha MP Jugal Kishore Sharma and Rajya Sabha MP Shamsher Singh Manhas had been continuously pursuing the demand and finally it has been cleared. Not only this, construction of concrete bunkers, setting up of five battalions of IRP with 60% share of border youth and developing infrastructure on borders have been the other land mark decisions of the present Narendra Modi government. Similarly, the State government has also extended the benefits of SRO-43 to some families in border areas.
While briefing about the recent meeting of the BJP delegation with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at Srinagar, Sat Sharma said the party conveyed its appreciations towards Union government’s initiative for dialogue with those who believe in ‘Kashmiriyat, Insaniyat and Jamhooriyat’. He said that the party, through a detailed memorandum submitted to the Union Home Minister, suggested no leniency towards trouble makers in the Valley besides putting forth suggestions and demands for bringing peace and normalcy.
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