Autonomy to J&K will address multiple issues: Omar

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The CM said that the key ingredient of bringing about prosperity in J&K is to improve the employability of the youth adding that J&K is a predominantly a service economy as such it is important to focus on the professionalization of services.

CJ: Vikram Kamble

Wed, Oct 14, 2009 19:11:38 IST

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Jammu and Kashmir News :

JAMMU AND KASHMIR Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Wednesday said that restoring autonomy to the state is not about creating a sovereign State within a nation, but addressing and accommodating diversity not only of identity but also of economy of development.

Delivering a lecture on basic ingredients for peace, progress and prosperity of Jammu and Kashmir at Amity University, Noida, the Chief Minister said re-structuring of political arrangements is required neither as a sentimental sop nor as a concession to secessionist propagation.

“Autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir had been designed to address genuine issues of identity, borders and governance in a consensual democracy. It prevents these issues from escalating and taking the form of nation, territory and statehood which sow seeds of secession”, he maintained.

“We have to find ways and means for the Indian civil society to engage with and own up Kashmir, Kashmiris and Kashmiriyat. It is the civil society more than the Indian State that needs to introspect and start the progress of engagement at different level”, he said and added that the fact is that during the Mumbai bomb blast the whole nation and every citizen of India rallied around but this has never happened in the case of Jammu and Kashmir, ‘wrecked as we have been tragedy after tragedy’.

He said, “all of us to a greater extent, be it in Srinagar or siliguri, have a stake in Mumbai – a national stake, a material stake, a business stake – but in Jammu and Kashmir all that the civil society of India has is some sort of an emotional stake. While we value the emotion, it is not sufficient, we need to go beyond the emotional equity”.

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