Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 10: Ajay Kumar Sadhotra, Additional General Secretary and former Minister of J&K National Conference today criticized the present dispensation for its failure to propel J&K’s industrial sector into a trajectory of sustained growth.
Interacting with the newly nominated office bearers of the party’s Traders and Industries, JKNC Wing at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan Jammu, Ajay Sadhotra along with Rattan Lal Gupta, Provincial President Jammu Province, raised serious concern over the stagnant industrial landscape in the Union Territory, highlighting the lack of effective policies and initiatives to stimulate economic development with the aim to making J&K an industrial hub.
Ajay Sadhotra asserted that except rhetoric, the Government has nothing for the people of J&K as record of setting up new industry in the last nearly ten years remained dismal whereas the party in power has changed scenario of industries in the states ruled by it like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, etc.
“As far as the dispensation here is concerned, it has expertise in only signing the MoUs worth crores of rupees and making colossal promises but on ground the situation is dwindling with industry either running on crutches or ventilators as no one from the ruling side seems to be serious about bringing a meaningful change on ground,” he said.
Rattan Lal Gupta threw light on the problems being faced by the traders of Jammu region. He sought reimbursement of 5% as Financial Support to industrial Sector on the Sale Value of Goods sold within the Union Territory of J&K to existing Industry, reimbursement of 100% Road Freight to Industrial Sector on Raw Materials/ Finished Goods within the UT/from outside the State by road, issue of notification in respect of duty draw back incentive under export obligation with retrospective effect, continuation of existing State/Central Package of Incentives for the existing Industry, refund of GST, etc.
Later, Vikram Puri, Chairman of Party’s Traders and Industries JKNC Wing appointed new members, who include Rajesh Chadha, Ashish Sharma, Aman Cheema, Karan Mahajan and Pooja Puri.
Those who were present on this occasion, included Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Bimla Luthra, Abdul Gani Teli, Vijay Lochan, Vijay Laxmi Datta and others.
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