JK PANORAMA NOV PRINT

electricity supply by the beginning of winter next
year, the officials said, adding that talks are being
held with power ministry for implementing this
project. The central government will also enhance
the compensation to the policemen killed during
encounters. At present, a local policeman gets Rs 40
lakh.
The decisions were considered to be part of
discussions held by Sharma during his visit to the
Valley for talking with all stakeholders. All these
issues were discussed in detail recently at the core
group on Kashmir, chaired by Union Home
Minister Rajnath Singh and attended by Defence
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and National
Security Advisor Ajit Doval, the officials said.
The state government is expected to take the
initiatives according to the suggestions of the
central government.
Meanwhile individuals blinded by pellets
may get a job each, Chief Minister Mahbooba Mufti
is working on the plan. In a bid to rediscover the
erstwhile 'healing touch', the government is
They are expected to be trained in braille systems so
that it enables them for proper absorption in the
system on passionate grounds. The process,
currently underway, will get into implementation
stage in early 2018, the sources said.
Sources said the idea is an off-shoot of the larger
thought process that youth must be engaged so that
they skip violent means. The state and the central
government, they said, are working on a
comprehensive plan to engage youth. While the
state government has already converted a district
jail into a “correction home', the Home Minister has
ordered the juveniles, if any, should be shifted away
from jails.
Rajnath Singh's recent direction on shifting of
juveniles to Remand Homes and immediate review
of their cases came after a high level meeting that
was attended by Defence Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman and NSA Ajit Doval.
“There is a strong possibility of the review of the
cases registered against youth who are first time
offenders,” sources said. “This is aimed at
contemplating providing a job to persons who were
blinded by pellets in 2016 and earlier, official
sources said.
“The issues of victims of violence are being looked
after from the Chief Minister's office and there has
been some way-forward on that,” one official privy
to the developments said. “Earlier, some pellet
victims were extended some monetary help to
manage medical bills and related expenses.”
The government has understood the larger reality
that those blinded by the use of pellets will have no
source for survival in future so they must have some
assured income that will help them survive with
least help.
preventing them from staying listed in the police
records which can become a lifelong problem for
them.”
A government report based on inputs from eight
Deputy Commissioners across Kashmir, which was
submitted to SHRC; according to reports suggest
that more than 1725 people suffered pellet injuries
in post-Burhan Wani unrest alone.
Details suggest that the injured included 154 from
Kulgam, 51 from Shopian, 47 from Pulwama, nine
from Anantnag, 137 from Ganderbal, 27 in
Srinagar, 440 from Sopore and 812 from the rest of
Baramulla. In Baramulla alone, six people have lost
vision in both eyes, the report has said.
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November 2017