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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Why are Kashmiris hurt?

If there was a fan club for Prof. Vaidyanathan, I would be the head. This man is one of those honest sons of India who makes us all feel good about being Hindu Conservatives. Here he takes on the grievances of the J&K stone pelters and their liberal supporters. The Indian Central government is like an unfair parent who take from their stronger children to support their weaker and unsuitable children. Such parents should deal with their problem children with an iron fist. With the notion like the famous phrase Spare the rod and spoil the child. Govt. of India should do the same. Instead they take huge revenues from prosperous states like Gujarat and Punjab and give it to non performing states. Of course most of the non performing states are not rioting. Most of the non performing states are not driving the peace loving citizens of the other religion out of the state. Most of the non performing states do not side with vile neighbors either. J&K is of course the exception. It is that ungrateful child of mother India which has been draining resources and yet doing nothing but harm. Don't the stone pelters know the situation they would be in if they were in PoK. No government, no elections, no resources (all the paki resources are for the Punjabis), no article 370, no Hindu homes to forcefully occupy. Some ungrateful worm in J&K said that they would like to join with pakistan even if the Indian govt. paved the Kashmiri roads with gold. The carrot of article 370 has not worked in the last 63 years. It's time to try the stick- areally big one!!

Kashmir Valley’s problems are not economic in nature at all

"J&K is near the top in almost all economic parameters. Consider:

The per capita net state domestic product at factor cost (at 1999-2000 prices) was Rs17,590 for J&K in 2007-08, which is higher than that of the Bimaru states (Bihar, UP, MP, etc). It also figures in the top quarter of Indian states (CSO figures). The state received more money from the Centre than anyone else.

In 2008-09, out of a total revenue of Rs19,362 crore, more than 70% came as grant from the Centre. All the Central assistance came as grant, and not loan (state budget documents & RBI), unlike other states."

"Kashmir’s per capita availability of milk (2005-2006), at 353gm per day, is much higher than most of the states with an all-India average of 241gm a day. The per capita spending on health (at Rs363) is much higher than most states, with Tamil Nadu at Rs170, Andhra at Rs146, UP at Rs83 and West Bengal at Rs206 and a national average of Rs167.
The percentage of children under age three who are undernourished on Anthropometric Indices (stunted, wasted or underweight) is lower for J&K than many other states: 28 for stunted (too short for age), 15 for wasted (too thin for height) and 29.4 for underweight (too thin for age) against the national averages of 38, 19 and 46 respectively."
The rest of the article can be read at the following;

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