Security agencies have launched the final assault on terrorism and its eco-system to ensure everlasting peace in Jammu and Kashmir, said Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday.
Addressing a gathering at MA Stadium in Jammu on Republic Day, LG Sinha said that the morale of security forces is high in J&K and all efforts to destabilize the peace are being given a befitting reply.
โSecurity agencies are busy in the last assault on the terror, its ecosystem and its supporters to ensure everlasting peace in the Union Territory,โ Sinha said.
He said that the administration and the Centre have taken a series of steps for the welfare of security agencies operating in J&K, informing that his administration received 8400 applications from Kashmiri Pandits, whose land and property were grabbed forcibly in the 1990s.
โThe administration is working to ensure such properties are retrieved and handed over to the Kashmiri Pandits,โ
He further commented that the situation in J&K is returning to normalcy and the enemyโs evil designs are being foiled. The LG said that the year 2022 saw a 55 per cent decrease in civilian killings and there is a significant dip in the killing of security personnel as well.
LG Sinha also said that a series of development initiatives are going on to push J&K to new heights of achievements. โSrinagar and Jammu will soon have metros, the tubes on the Srinagar-Jammu highway are also being set up on war footing,โ he said.
โFor the first time, J&K will have a Women Industrial Estate while promotions of almost 2000 officers that didnโt take place since 2001 are being cleared. The special focus of the administration is on the youth as J&Kโs 70 per cent economy is dependent on agriculture.โ
โI want to tell those involved in the barbaric killings of innocents at the behest of the neighbouring country that we will avenge every drop of blood and tears. I assure the families who lost their loved ones that the entire nation stands with you and concrete measures will be taken to ensure that the families of our bravehearts live a life of comfort and dignity,โ he told the audience.
LG Sinha said that J&K is witnessing an industrial revolution for the first time in the last seven decades of Independence.
โIt has opened up doors of immense possibilities for the new generation. Private investment proposals worth โน66,000 crores have been received within a period of around one year, during which 1455 industrial units started their operations. This is, by far, the biggest industrial campaign in the history of Jammu and Kashmir in a yearโ, he added.
