Target Killing In Kashmir: Migrant laborers leaving Kashmir

Target Killing In Kashmir: Terrorists shot the progress of Kashmir, not the workers.

Gulzar Ahmed, a contractor by profession, said, after accommodating a group of non-Kashmiri workers in a sumo taxi at Srinagar’s TRC Chowk.

They have not only shot the workers, but they have also shot the progress of Kashmir. I take contracts for works of Public Works Department.

I always take the services of workers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Bengal. 17 of the 25 laborers who worked with me have gone. Eight has been stopped with great difficulty.

If all the workers leave and don’t come back, about 90 percent of the construction work in Kashmir will come to a standstill.

At the same time, another businessman Nisar Naqshbandi also said in a sad voice that about two thousand non-Kashmiri workers work in sawmills here.

With this, you can understand how much effect it will have. Apart from this, 95 percent of the barbers here are from other states.

Motor mechanics, painters, dentists, and farm laborers are also almost non-Kashmiris.

There are also workers from Bihar, UP in various factories in Kashmir. Their departure means the lack of skilled manpower in Kashmir.

You should be aware that the workers are continuing to leave Kashmir in fear due to the increasing incidents of selective targeting of non-Kashmiris in the Valley.

Most of the trains coming from Kashmir to Jammu are non-Kashmiri workers. So far in October, terrorists have killed five workers in Kashmir.

At the same time, the people of Kashmir are also very worried about the non-Kashmiri workers leaving the Valley.

They are worried about the fact that leaving Kashmir with skilled workers will have a significant impact on the ongoing construction work here as well as the work of carpenters etc.

Some businessmen have even stopped many laborers citing their helplessness.

Ajit Sahu of Chhattisgarh, who reached Jammu from Srinagar, told that he used to work at a brick kiln there. His wife and two small children were also living there with him.

As soon as we got information about the killing of two youths from Bihar in the night, we started preparing to leave Kashmir at the same time.

Though the kiln owner assured him of keeping them safe there, he thought it better to leave the valley considering the safety of the family.

Target Killing In Kashmir: Sahu said that four other families working with him have also reached Jammu.

Jammu and Kashmir government should make arrangements to send home: Laxman, another laborer from Chhattisgarh, told that he was working in Kashmir for five years.

Things used to get bad there earlier too, but they never felt scared there, but now terrorists are selectively targeting non-Kashmiris. It is not safe to live in Kashmir now.

Those seven people have come together from Kashmir. He is getting calls from home also. We demand from the government that arrangements should be made to take them to their homes.

They don’t even have money. Workers continue to reach the Jammu bus stand and railway station continuously. Instead of staying right here, most of the workers are leaving for their homes.

Every year in summer about seven lakh workers have been coming to Kashmir:

In summer, under normal circumstances, about seven lakh non-Kashmiris have been coming to the valley to earn their livelihood.

Later, after the situation and the situation arising out of the infection of Covid-19, their number decreased.