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| AIIMS, Smart City, IT, IIM results of mass struggles | | Jammu is a factor | | Early Times Report
jammu, Nov 14: While giving the break-up of the recently announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Rs 80,000 crore package, the state government on Thursday said that Rs 1000 crore each have been allotted for IIM and IIT to be set up in Jammu province. It said Rs 1000 Crore has been allotted to IIM Jammu, Rs 1000 Crore for IIT Jammu, Rs 2000 Crore for AIIMS, and Rs 250 crore for Smart City in Jammu province. As for Kashmir, Rs 2000 Crore has been allotted for AIIMS and Rs 250 crore for Smart City.
The announcement that Jammu province will get AIIMS, IIT, IIM and Smart City constituted a great victory of the people of Jammu province. Victory in the sense that they got these institutions of national importance and Smart City not because the authorities sanctioned them on their own, but because they were forced to do so under pressure from the people of Jammu province.
Take, for example, the mass struggle in Jammu province between May 21 and August 5, 2015 for the establishment of AIIMS in Jammu. It was this struggle, which was coupled with 8-day bandh across Jammu province, almost a month-long dharna and three massive rallies against the BJP and the state government and the central government, and police-crowd clashes, that left the authorities in New Delhi with no other option but to issue a letter directing the state government to identify 200 kanals of land for the establishment of AIIMS in Jammu.
Similarly, it was pressure from Jammu that the BJP-led NDA Government sanctioned two Smart Cities for the state, one each for Jammu province and Kashmir Valley. The authorities knew that not to sanction a Smart City in Jammu province would mean another mass agitation in the province.
The fact of the matter is that while the privileged people of Kashmir got everything on a platter, the people of Jammu province had to come on to the roads time and again to obtain technical and professional institutions and universities. The establishment of Jammu Medical College, Engineering College, University of Jammu, Central University of Jammu, Mata Vaishno Devi University and Agriculture University were all the results of mass struggles in Jammu province.
One thing is very clear: The people of Jammu province are a factor and no power on earth can ignore them. They have the capacity and the necessary will to bring the authorities to their knees and the Thursday announcement that Jammu will get AIIMS, IIM, IIT and Smart City is a proof.
It is disgusting that the Congress, the NC and People's Democratic Front took an exception to this announcement and accused the authorities of depriving Kashmir of its right to have IIT and IIM.
"Kashmir must also be given IIM and IIT. When the government can sanction AIIMS for Jammu even though only AIIMS was allotted for Kashmir, why cannot it sanction IIT and IIM for Kashmir. No region should be left out by the government from development. Congress will demand IIT and IIM for Kashmir as the region needs it to alleviate the education problems of the youth," JKPCC chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir was quoted as saying.
NC Kashmir province president Nasir Aslam Wani reportedly said: "The government must do something to compensate Kashmir region by establishing such (IIM and IIT) facilities here also, so that both the regions get equitable development". Peoples Democratic Front President and MLA Khansahib Hakim Mohammad Yaseen also expressed almost identical view.
Significantly, neither the Congress nor the NC and the PDF stated that Kashmir already has an AIIMS-like institution in Kashmir (Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences) and National Institute of Technology and with the establishment of AIIMS in Kashmir, the Valley will have the privilege of having two AIIMS. |
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