The Pathetic Communication and Gurez Valley
Valley of gurez, very beautiful with unparalled landscape where nature has painted the colours with most care and leisure. Though nature has been unbiased in shaping the valley. Alas! Humans have not done justice in disbursing their part of duty and respomsibility to the valley. We have seen institutional and infrastructural changes all through last ten years.Woefully very little has been done in the arena of communication. The modern world, the age of technology when humans started to leave this earth and settle somewhere on our sister planets like Mars, it is ironical that Gurezi’s still ache for a proper cellular communication. Though landline active from a long time remained limited only in the middle sector of the valley. Tulail and Bagtore, the most marginalised regionsof Gurez sub division are devoid of such facility as well.
This is the age when India is claimimg to be the fastest growing economy. This is the time when IT sector of India is shining globally. India being the rich supplier of the technocrats working abroad as MDs and CEOs in top companies of the world. The country which thinks of getting digitized by december 2018. The digital india project kick started in 2015 will come to an end just in december 2018. Will Mr Modi’s dream project turn into reality by december ? A big no to this, for current situation has something else to reveal. A major snag in implemnting the Digital India mission is the digital divide in the country. The divide is because of priority based development. The disparity in bringing the every village and block under comunnication is taking the Digital India initiative in shambles. Talking about Gurez, the hillolcked valley with tribal dwellers has been a great victim not only of Digital India initiative but also of governmental and miltary interests. The 4g data availability was made by NOFCN (National Optical Fibre Cable Network) at almost every military post, Alas! The neighbouring dwellers who are entitled to be the guardians of their territory are by passed in a smart way. Military is enjoying the internet service whether for personal or security purposes we don’t know. The 4g Jio towers installed at tehsil headquarters started to work in a 24*7 schedule. In Bagtore and Tulail the site for towers was selected, but no work is started yet. Indian army the most powerful organ and infact the saviour of the country, the guardian of peace and security can’t give security to this small territory. They claim the tower availability will increase the chances of cross border infilitration. If country is spending a large part of its GDP in this unproductive sector i,e defence sector then why are they getting weak only because communication will haunt them and they won’t be able to secure a small territory with a population of just 35000. The BSNL tower at Bagtore installed under military jurisdiction and is run by army as per their needs and wish. Sometimes we have signals in our cell phones at 12:00am and sometimes at 4:00am. Now locals have to keep alarams or put reminders to get up at times when signal is available. How insane military is driving locals. Military should work for the welfare and make people sure thet security is the first priority but not at the cost of communication, sine qua non in today’s world. But, the scenario is different, the military wants locals to stay deaf and dom only because they fear their own lives, whether 35000 Gurezis survive or not hardly matters for tyrants in khaaki.
Putting it in a lucid way, i question the authorities, will they look into the matter seriously or the day will come when public will break their chains of passions and come out on roads. History is there when tribals have suffered from the carelessness of the system what the results have been. How long will a Gurezi suffer. How long we will desiderate for a good and balanced communication. When the time will come, when we will be taking our tea at Gurez and watching our fellows having their cup of coffee somewhere in another corner of earth. I think never because nobody listens to and works towards depressed and sunken.
Mujtaba Bhat
This is the age when India is claimimg to be the fastest growing economy. This is the time when IT sector of India is shining globally. India being the rich supplier of the technocrats working abroad as MDs and CEOs in top companies of the world. The country which thinks of getting digitized by december 2018. The digital india project kick started in 2015 will come to an end just in december 2018. Will Mr Modi’s dream project turn into reality by december ? A big no to this, for current situation has something else to reveal. A major snag in implemnting the Digital India mission is the digital divide in the country. The divide is because of priority based development. The disparity in bringing the every village and block under comunnication is taking the Digital India initiative in shambles. Talking about Gurez, the hillolcked valley with tribal dwellers has been a great victim not only of Digital India initiative but also of governmental and miltary interests. The 4g data availability was made by NOFCN (National Optical Fibre Cable Network) at almost every military post, Alas! The neighbouring dwellers who are entitled to be the guardians of their territory are by passed in a smart way. Military is enjoying the internet service whether for personal or security purposes we don’t know. The 4g Jio towers installed at tehsil headquarters started to work in a 24*7 schedule. In Bagtore and Tulail the site for towers was selected, but no work is started yet. Indian army the most powerful organ and infact the saviour of the country, the guardian of peace and security can’t give security to this small territory. They claim the tower availability will increase the chances of cross border infilitration. If country is spending a large part of its GDP in this unproductive sector i,e defence sector then why are they getting weak only because communication will haunt them and they won’t be able to secure a small territory with a population of just 35000. The BSNL tower at Bagtore installed under military jurisdiction and is run by army as per their needs and wish. Sometimes we have signals in our cell phones at 12:00am and sometimes at 4:00am. Now locals have to keep alarams or put reminders to get up at times when signal is available. How insane military is driving locals. Military should work for the welfare and make people sure thet security is the first priority but not at the cost of communication, sine qua non in today’s world. But, the scenario is different, the military wants locals to stay deaf and dom only because they fear their own lives, whether 35000 Gurezis survive or not hardly matters for tyrants in khaaki.
Putting it in a lucid way, i question the authorities, will they look into the matter seriously or the day will come when public will break their chains of passions and come out on roads. History is there when tribals have suffered from the carelessness of the system what the results have been. How long will a Gurezi suffer. How long we will desiderate for a good and balanced communication. When the time will come, when we will be taking our tea at Gurez and watching our fellows having their cup of coffee somewhere in another corner of earth. I think never because nobody listens to and works towards depressed and sunken.
Mujtaba Bhat
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