Train to Pahalgam put on hold for now as J&K govt, MPs flag threat to apple orchards

JAMMU: Parties crossed the governmental disagreement successful J&K person welcomed the announcement connected Tuesday by railway curate Ashwini Vaishnaw that 3 projected railway projects successful the authorities person been enactment connected clasp for present pursuing absorption from the authorities govt and MPs, who person argued that the way alignments could harm pome orchards.Vaishnaw said determination was a request for 3 further railway projects successful the region, but these had been kept connected clasp for present owed to the objections raised.He did not specify the names of the projects.The governing National Conference said the halted proposals see the Bijbehara-Pahalgam railway nexus and the Pulwama-Shopian railway project. The contented was earlier raised by section farmers, legislators, including Anantnag-Poonch MP Mian Altaf and the absorption PDP leaders.Pahalgam legislator Altaf Kaloo and the NC spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq thanked CM Omar Abdullah and MP Mian Altaf for what they described arsenic their “timely and captious intervention” successful stopping the projected railway tracks betwixt Bijbehara-Pahalgam and Anantnag-Shopian.“This is simply a captious measurement towards protecting people’s livelihoods, pome orchards and the fragile ecology of the region,” Kaloo said.PDP president and erstwhile CM Mehbooba Mufti said, “The determination to enactment the Pahalgam and Shopian railway lines connected clasp brings much-needed alleviation to Kashmir’s agrarian economy.

These projects threatened to destruct scarce fertile onshore and propulsion implicit a cardinal agrarian families into uncertainty. In immoderate aboriginal plan, farmers and section communities indispensable beryllium taken connected committee to support Kashmir’s system and societal fabric.”CPI(M) legislator M Y Tarigami said connectivity to areas similar Pahalgam and Shopian and different areas of J&K already exists done roadworthy networks and much roads are coming up. “Development is meaningless if it destroys livelihoods,” helium said, hailing the railway curate for the determination to halt the projects.