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| Mirwaiz blesses Kashmir traders shutdown call on Sept 7 | | blames govt. for its torpid attitude, demands relief to rescue traders from fiscal crisis |
Srinagar, September 3, (Scoop News)-Justifying the shutdown call given by the Kashmir Trade Associations on Monday against the government failure to rehabilitate last year's the flood victims, APHC leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has expressed his regret over complete apathy of the government in providing relief and rehabilitation package to the flood victims in Kashmir so far.
During the past few days, several trade federations including Kashmir Trader and Manufactures (KTMF) Federation, Kashmir Economic Alliance(KEA) and others called upon Mirwaiz to apprise him about the government inaction to rehabilitate traders and people affected by the flood.
The several delegations comprised of trade leaders Mohammad Yasin Khan, Showket Choudhary, Jan Mohammad Koul, Sirajuddin Punjabi,, Manzoor ahmad and Deen Mohamamd Matoo told APHC leader that government had not taken any concrete step or unveiled any policy to compensate the damages to trade infrastructure, businessmen, and flood victims of September 7, 2014.
Despite a year had passed since the flood devastated Srinagar, the traders told Mirwaiz that government had made only verbal commitments for the flood victims, but practically no step had been taken to redress the sufferings of flood victims including traders.
While assuring the traders APHC leader said that Hurriyat Conference would extend all support to the demands of Kashmiri traders and termed the Kashmir Bandh call given by trade unions as justified.
He said that Hurriyat fully supports the strike call given by traders on September 7 and added that trade is the back bone of every economy and as such it is highly unfortunate that government has so far exhibited a completely callous and indifferent approach to compensate the damages inflicted upon the traders and trade infrastructure by the devastating floods.
Mirwaiz said that the traders have been giving crores of rupees to the government as taxes hence it was the duty of the govt to come to their aid.He denounced the government polices in this regard.
APHC leader said the government has so far failed to compensate the flood victims on local level, adding, it had also failed to bring aid from the Government of India to alleviate the sufferings of flood victims. He said that the government also denied international aid to Kashmir which clearly reflects the anti-people polices adopted by them.
Mirwaiz said the Kashmir economy was suffering since there was no proper trade infrastructure. He said that it was extremely important to inject strength in trade and invest in trade infrastructure to extricate Kashmir out of this financial crisis.
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