While Kashmir was witnessing unrest, some “miscreants” took advantage of it and engaged in encroachments and illegal construction in the valley, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said today, adding she has ordered a drive for removal of such structures.
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti along with BJP state president Sat Sharma and Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh during the inauguration of Government Dental College and Hospital in Jammu on Tuesday.
“The children’s and students belong in food camps, IIT, dental colleges, not on road”.
“Our children look good with books in their hands in the classrooms studying to be doctors, engineers and architects of our future rather than being on the streets”, she said, asserting that education holds key to emancipation and empowerment of any society.
She said the pursuit of education should not be merely for the objective of acquiring employment and that it should serve the larger goal of transforming the character of an individual by making him or her aware of their surroundings.
“Even if she requires an eye transplant to make her see the world around again, the state government would provide full support for the same”, she told the doctors.
Jammu and Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti says, “The culture in Kashmir was that if by mistake our foot touched a notebook on the floor, we touched the book to our forehead”. She said she had heard that “huge encroachments” had taken place in Jammu region also where some people took advantage of the unrest in Kashmir “as most of government setup is focused towards it”.
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The spokesman said, Mehbooba could at least be on the side of her people and join their just struggle, “But for petty power and to please her masters she has been competing in killing and maiming her own people”.
