The Dependent Bureau, Hiranagar: Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said here today that the Modi government at the Centre is ensuring ...
The Dependent Bureau, Hiranagar:
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said here today that the Modi government at the Centre is ensuring equal share for Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir, without any regional discrimination.
Addressing the gathering after distributing free Doordarshan Dish/Set Top boxes to the people living in border area, Dr Jitendra Singh said, ever since Narendra Modi took over as Prime Minister in 2014, there has been a cautious effort to correct the regional imbalances of the past and strike an optimum regional balance in all the centrally aided initiatives. One of the most recent examples of this , he said, is the Amendment Bill brought in Parliament to introduce 3% reservation in educational institutions and jobs for people living along the International Border (IB), because the earlier governments had discriminately granted this reservation only to people living along LoC.
Dr Jitendra said that it is a healthy change, which is taking some time to find a place in the mindset of people because of the several decades of injustice suffered by them. He said, he could sense the cynicism when certain fringe leaders and certain fringe sections of media tried, in vain, to rake up an issue by saying that the free DD Dish boxes meant for border area people had been distributed to people of Srinagar. In today's hi-tech information technology age, he said, all of us are expected to know that the State level official launching of the new scheme was to be done by the Governor who is presently operating from the summer capital of Srinagar, but the beneficiaries who received the free Dish boxes in the 22nd June function at SKICC Srinagar also belonged in large numbers to the IB and LoC sectors of Kathua and Rajouri districts.
Dr Jitendra Singh appreciated the Modi government for conceding another long standing demand of allowing satellite Doordarshan channel for Dogri news and Dogri programme. He recalled that this had been a demand from Jammu for several decades but the successive governments in the past never paid attention because of their different priorities. He disclosed that from 22nd June, daily Dogri programme is available on Doordarshan satellite channel after 6 pm in the evening and gradually the time slot will increase, before we finally have an exclusive 24 hours Dogri channel through satellite Doordarshan.
Taking a dig, Dr Jitendra Singh wondered where are those self-styled Dogra activists who are always clamoring for Dogra pride but are today hesitant to acknowledge and laud the Modi government for giving Dogri a satellite slot on Doordarshan for the first time in history. He said, sometimes one tends to suspect that some of these fake activists are actually not keen to achieve the objectives but are more interested in the objectives not being achieved, so that they can carry on with their self styled activism.
Referring to the growth of Dogri language in educational institutions, Dr Jitendra Singh said, there is a basic problem which is that of shortage of Dogri teachers as well shortage of students preferring to take Dogri as a medium of learning. To those who pretend to cry hoarse for promotion of Dogri language in schools, he asked, will these protagonists make at least this much of commitment that their own children shall take up Dogri as the medium of studies both at high school as well as at 10+2 level and refuse to go in for English or Hindi medium.
Elaborating on the Union I&B Ministry's initiative to distribute free DD Dish, Dr Jitendra Singh said 30,000 such boxes will be distributed, to begin with, in the State. This, he said, has a special significance because in the border areas, where Indian signals are poor and sometimes the Pakistani signals are more overpowering. He informed that a proposal has bee approved to erect Mobile towers in the border area for the benefit of mobile and internet. (The Dependent)
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