Kashmir Will Adopt Northeast Development Model

The scrapping of the special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 has led to concern in Northeast that the region will also lose the special status. Union Minister Jitendra Singh held a day-long brainstorming session with party workers across Northeast on Wednesday to clear the apprehension among the people on the special status accorded to the region under Article 371. The scrapping of the special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 has led to concern in Northeast that the region will also lose the special status. Under Article 371, most of the states in Northeast enjoy constitutional safeguards to preserve their culture, land, and resources.

The region, particularly Assam, has remained tense over the National Register of Citizens (NRC); close to two million people have been excluded from the final NRC list that was released on August 31.Mr. Singh said that the center’s move on Jammu and Kashmir was necessary to address the large cause of taking on terrorism”. He also said livelihood and income generation schemes implemented in the northeast will be replicated in Jammu and Kashmir as new avenues of development have cropped up in the region. It is serving the larger cause of taking on terrorism. It was the foundation head of terrorism due to the mechanization of Pakistan and because of Article 370, J&K was vulnerable. Now even Kashmir will adopt to the northeast model of development.