Public participation essential for peaceful co-existence, progress

DSS Concerned over the violence surcharged climate and squeezing boundaries
of tolerance and mutual understandings in the country, Dogra Sadar Sabha (DSS) held a brainstorming session with its senior members of the ‘think tank’. President DSS, Th Gulchain Singh Charak opened the session by amplifying the prevailing countrywide unrest with special reference to Kashmir, Kolkataand Rajasthan. Members expressed concern over the re-emergence of continued violence in Kashmir Valley in the shape of ‘selective killings’
and incidents of ‘hate killings’ elsewhere in the country like in Udaipur and Amravati. The
members wholeheartedly admired the role of security forces in successfully containing terror in Kashmir reducing it to barely surviving on Pakistani support system for its last breaths. Least these 12,700 Indian martyrs deserve is a graceful memorial on the banks of Dal
Lake as token of recognition for their supreme sacrifices in retaining, protecting, preserving and serving the ‘Heaven on Earth’ called Kashmir, they opined. The think tank comprising of
Col Karan Singh, Col Dr Virendra K Sahi, Brig M S Jamwal, Gambhir Dev Singh Charak , CM Sharma , Rajesh, Yash Paul and others strongly recommend that the UT Government should form nonpolitical advisory committees separately for the Jammu and Kashmir divisions as combined bodies of governance and their machinery have failed the Jammu region for the past 75 years. Similarly, they added, composite committees may be established down to districts to bridge the people/public gap till the elections are held and elected
public representatives get in place to assist governance. The grass root level elected bodies
should be better empowered and co-opted in decision making for their own constituencies, they added. Gulchain Singh Charak reiterated a similar need of amicable people participation at the Centre and few other trouble torn States.

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