If Govt Depts Want Internet, Heads Have To Take Responsibility For Any Misuse thewire.in

Government departments in Kashmir can get back their internet services only with a rider: the head of the department will be held responsible for any misuse. This is part of an undertaking that field departments in Kashmir are required to submit to the Jammu and Kashmir police to seek restoration of internet facilities in their offices to carry out department work.

The government-enforced internet gag in the restive Valley completes 105 days on Sunday. This unprecedented step, according to many officials The Wire spoke to, has badly hit work culture in the Valley – where a governance deficit continues to add to people’s woes. The prevailing situation, a senior official from the engineering department said, forced field departments to take up the matter with the respective administrative heads at the civil secretariat, the highest seat of governance in J&K.