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At least 5000 employees of the Jammu and Kashmir Government are
said to be involved in the Pak-sponsored terrorism. A large number
of them are stated to be at the pay-roll of ISI and other agencies.
The most-affected are the police force and the school teachers.
Amongst such employees there are several engineers and doctors.
Many officers including some senior officers are also trapped but
it seems that most of them are gradually realising the futility of
such activities.
In the last few years of insurgency the involvement was so deep
that a number of employees crossed over the border to have
trainings and came back to join the violent and subversive
activities.
Since 1990, about 500 such persons, mostly the policemen, have been
either killed in encounters with the security forces or arrested
which led to their dismissal from service.
It is alleged that sometimes when these employees were in training
camps in Pakistan and being absent from their duties to indulge in
violence and subversive activities, some high-ups would send their
salaries to their homes.
In reply to a question of a BJP MLA Shri Bali Bhagat, the Minister
of State, Shri Ali Mohd. Sagar confirmed in the State Assembly
that the Government had found 38 officials having possible
involvement in terrorism-related activities in the Doda district.
Shri Sagar said that of then two were junior engineers and one of
them was a self-styled district chief commander of an outfit and
was absconding. A doctor is also absconding and has been terminated
from the Government service, he pointed out, adding, three
policemen have also been found involved in subversive activities.
However, Shri Bali Bhagat claimed that the number of such officials
could be much higher.
There are reports that not only in the Doda district but also in
many other areas the disease is bigger one.
Ale State Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah, accepted in the State
Assembly that he was aware that certain officials were having links
with the ISI of Pakistan and other terrorist outfits. But the
Government authorities have so far done little to tackle the menace
for the reasons best known to the authorities.
However, it is alleged that them arc certain politicians who are
playing a dubious role. Their main task has been to put blames on
the security forces and demoralise them by indulging in a
systematic campaign of Vilification.
No census in J&K
As there has been no decennial census in Jammu and Kashmir unlike
that in other States of India in 1991, not only the people of J&K
are suffering, but almost all the economic and political activity
is getting adversely affected. The census of 1991 in the State was
not conducted owing to the "disturbed conditions" there. In the
absence of the decennial census, the entire working, including the
State developmental plans and even the delimitation of Assembly
constituencies, was based on the census figures of 1981.
During the past 17 years there has been a sea change in the entire
population of the State. In 1981, the total population of the State
was placed at around 60 lakh comprising 27.18, lakh of the Jammu
region, 31.34 in the Kashmir Valley, and 1.34 of the Ladakh region.
Owing to communal disturbance and other problems in the Kashmir
Valley since the census of 1981, more than seven lakh people have
migrated from the Kashmir Valley and most of them have settled in
Jammu city and in other parts of the region.
Because of the migration from the Kashmir Valley and from some
areas of the Doda district and other places of the region, the
population of Jammu city is estimated to have increased by eight
lakh; whereas in 1981 it was only about two lakh. In the absence
of census in 1991. ration in most areas is being supplied on basis
of the 1981 figures. The rural areas of Jammu in this context are
worst affected since children born after 1981 are still not covered
with old ration cards. Even for planning for developmental
activities in different districts,' funds are being allotted on the
basis of the 1981 data. The population of Jammu city crossed the
figure of four lakh quite some years back but the Union Finance
Ministry is not yet prepared to grant it B-2 city status in spite
of repeated assurances by the State Government and announcements by
the Prime Minister conceding the demand of B-2 city status to Jammu
city. There are various other aspects of life which are based on
tentative figures. In this situation, the Jammu region is the
worst affected. As per the Government sources, there is no plan to
for conducting any census in Jammu and Kashmir in the near future
that is the remaining years of the century.
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