HOLY MONTH OF RAMDHAN
Holy month of Ramdhan is just few days away and the UT administration should take all the review meetings for the supply chain and also for the facilitation of essential items in all the areas of Kashmir valley especially in Srinagar city.
It is a tradition in Kashmir that people prepare additional dishes for Sehri and Iftar and to get the items in the market, government will have to ease the restrictions to some extent so that people can get the essential supplies without any hindrance. Police in the recent past has been chasing away people even in the interiors of the Srinagar city when they come out to buy essential items.
Already most of religious heads in the Kashmir valley along with Mirwaiz Umer Farooq have asked people not to assemble for prayers in the Masjids during the holy month of Ramdhan.
There is no need for police to ruthlessly act in Srinagar city as already most of the masjids, shrines and other places of assembly have been closed by the people of their own and there would be no gathering during the month of Ramdhan also.
Bureaucracy in Jammu and Kashmir should come out from the mind set of enforcing all their directions by police without bothering to know from the ground, how they are enforcing such directions. Government should understand that after all, they have imposed all restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir for the welfare of the residents. They should not narrow the gap between the hunger and coronavirus, force people to violate the restrictions.
Instead they should look for ways and means to bring on the door step of those have nots of society all the essential items, who have now no purchasing power to buy them from the markets. For the people of Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir, lockdown is not few weeks old but they have seen severe restrictions from August 5, last year when central government abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
