It’s mostly our poor families who are the sufferers in our valley. They earn their bread and butter on a day to day basis and it seems this world will not let them live in a state of peace. Those hartals and strikes have now kept us in a dark and our thoughts and actions have been blocked. We have the children of conflict who are always at the receiving end. Our future seems to be in dark when our children are not given good opportunities today to develop and groomed in a safer environment. No one seems to be really caring for our promising children of our State. Our students are pursuing their studies with greater difficulties. But the system is corrupt when we don’t have better infrastructure and proper policies in place. We live in an Internet age and the country is claiming to be ready for its 5G revolution. But we are deprived of good internet services in the valley. When it comes to our valley, every ‘G’ is missing and the tardiness of internet makes people suffer. The bad internet service is giving more troubles to the businesses and the students. Now we have online filling of application forms as a requirement for many jobs and our valley students can’t apply on time. It aggravates the unemployment rates further and shatters dreams of many deserving candidates.
Our administration poses a bad look when it comes to justify with their concerned services. During my three months long recent stay in the valley, most part of the valley was kept under darkness. It is really surprising to see outside states having 24 hours daily/ 7 days access to electricity. But the valley as a good producer of energy on average is having just 4-5 hour daily/ 7days access to power. We have no rights to use our own power. But there are no concessions given and in fact the electricity charges have taken a big hike. Due to global climatic changes, snow fall is now rare in the valley. But when God became kind, it exposed many….The early snow fall exposed lack of preparations in the valley. Neither we were prepared nor do we try to learn to be proactive for any kind of weather vagaries. The corrupted system in our valley has made us badly suffer. When the board exams were announced recently, the timings were too harsh and unrealistic for our students. Some of the exam centers used candle lights and some centers took shelter in a mosque due to poor arrangements. Our schools don’t have proper arrangements. It is the people who form a good society. But our lax approach being a part of the society has turned this state into more gloom. Our labors, businesses and employees have become too casual in their approach…We have lost our strength and high spirit. Now everyone means business and self centric approach is prevailing at its peak. Our Kashmir has lost almost all good trades. There are better alternatives available. Now we prefer outside workforce for every work and there are reasons for analysis and high introspection.
Our state has always been very unfortunate to be dogged by destructive politics. Our administrators have a vision for our Kashmir in terms of opening of new cinemas and thus improve our economy. But they don’t seem to have an eye on the essentials of a common man. Cinema is a luxury which is hardly required in the valley and in fact everyone carries a mini cinema in his pocket. The basic amenities are missing in the valley and a common man is at the suffering end. On one day big scams are being exposed and the next day they turn into strong forces of development.
Ah! it seems that it is one’s honesty that gets defeated in the end…Yes my words rightly quote brave traffic officer IPS Basanth Rath’s transfer, that was a suspicious one. The transfer of an officer is never a good move. The great officer was in command of huge respect and fan following for his selfless and honest services. While travelling in a passenger vehicle people were murmuring “honesty has lost its sheen now” and there is bad politics behind his transfer……Just asking “If we are claiming to fight for any injustice in our valley, why we have not shown any resentment against this transfer to teach a lesson to the dishonest ones”.
Our contractual teachers and the ones selected under different schemes are always suffering. They are suffering just because they were hopeful to be given priorities in future vacancies for employment. It’s pity that the employees work with same nature of job and job descriptions but some get access to every luxury in life while the others working under schemes receive peanuts.…The teachers who are employed on one day turn unemployed the very next day. Our policy makers always act as clueless. With such a gloomy picture and misery all around, there is only a hope left for our valley now. Let’s pray for a better, safer and progressive Kashmir.
(The author is an Assistant Professor at ITM University Gwalior, Educator at Unacademy and Editor in Chief at startupdailytips.com. Views are his own)