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‘Negative publicity major hindrance in facilitating greater footfall in the state’

The Goods and Services Tax has had a “negative” effect on tourism in Jammu and Kashmir, a parliamentary panel has noted, adding the government of India should reconsider the indirect tax regime on tourism-related activities in the northern state.
Quoting stakeholders, the committee on development of tourism in Jammu and Kashmir, in its report, has said that sourcing of products and materials is an issue in the state.

“Unlike other states, residents of Jammu and Kashmir and its business owners spend huge amounts of money on procuring essentials, most of which have to be flown in, which increases their capital expenditure,” the report reads.
“The sensitive nature of Jammu and Kashmir must be taken into consideration during the development of tourism in the region. The implementation of GST on tourism in the region will have manifold effects, mostly negative on its economy”, the committee said.
It said small business owners of small-scale hotels and home stays cannot list their properties on various travel intermediary websites as there is a levy of 18 per cent of GST, which cuts across the little profit they make, making their venture “unsustainable”. “In this regard, the committee recommends that the implementation of Goods and Services Tax on tourism-related activities in the state must be reconsidered. It must be done in a cautious and phased manner in order to ensure that the delicate state of tourism in the region is not adversely affected”, the panel said, adding the ministry of tourism must initiate dialogue with the finance ministry in this regard.
The committee also expressed worry over the “negative publicity” which it cited as a major hindrance to increasing footfall in the region.
“This perception overshadows the true narrative of the region as not all parts of the state are in conflict or affected by it,” it remarked.
The panel also recommended that the tourism ministry organise its own publicity campaign “in order to remove the negative impression of the state which is based on incorrect facts”.
The ministry should also involve the ministry of information and broadcasting and the external affairs ministry for the removal of advisories imposed by various countries against travel to Jammu and Kashmir, the parliamentary panel added.

“They ordered me to go inside the hideout and ask the militants to surrender. I shivered but the barrel of gun on my shoulder forced me to go near the entrance of hideout,” Akhoon recalls.

Two days ago when six militants were killed in a gunfight at Arampora hamlet of Tral, father of a slain militant Sauliha Muhammad Akhoon recalled how his eyes captured the whole encounter.

“It all started on Saturday morning when government forces entered our house and asked me to approach the militants hiding inside the hideout,” said Sauliha’s father Jan Mohammad Akhoon.

The hideout was located barely yards away from Akhoon’s residence.

“They ordered me to go inside the hideout and ask the militants to surrender. I shivered but the barrel of gun on my shoulder forced me to go near the entrance of hideout,” Akhoon recalls.

The announcement was made by him before he fainted and fell on the ground.

The announcement was like: “Your hideout is sealed by forces and there is no scope for your escape. Forces are asking me to inform you to surrender.”

Following the announcement there was complete lull until, what he recalls, he lost the consciousness.

“A few army soldiers came towards me and took me to the side. In no time guns start roaring when suddenly a group of militants came out of the hideout and shouted slogans.”

Surrounded by army soldiers and policeman, Akhoon says he was lying flat on the ground when exchange of fire took place between militants and government forces. “Today I feel like if I am living a new life,” he says while receiving the mourners who visit his residence.

Thousands of people from various villages continue to throng his residence at Arampora here.

“I was shocked when I saw my son Sauliha being killed in front of my eyes. May Almighty accept his martyrdom,” Akhoon smiled and said.

“It all ended in 5-10 minutes before all militants were killed. Some militants were carrying guns while some youth were without any weapon in hands shouting pro-Islam slogans,” he adds.

For 10 minutes the entire Arampora village, Akhoon said, reverberated with Islamic slogans. “Militants were shouting Takbeer Takbeer, Allah u Akbar until they one by one they fell on ground.”

These slogans, he said, pumped up everyone including men, women, children who marched towards the gunfight site but not before all six militants were killed.

Regarding his son Sauliha, Akhoon said on 13 March 2015 his son left home and joined militancy.

“It was Friday and i had gone to office but when I returned home I didn’t find Sauliha. I asked my family about him, they said he embraced everyone and left,” Akhoon says.

When a top police officer was asked why the militant’s father was taken as a hostage during the encounter, he said that he was asked to request militants for surrender following which militants opened fire, triggering the encounter.

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Srinagar: Kashmir University on Monday announced winter vacations for main and satellite campuses from January 1, 2019, to February 28, Reports quoting an order of the varsity said that the teaching departments of the main and satellite campuses, Kashmir, shall close for winter vacations.

“However, all the Departmental offices shall function normally and the Heads of the Departments shall ensure that the examinations are conducted as per schedule,” order by Deputy Registrar, Academic Affairs, said.

‘Kargil, Leh Hill councils empowered, strengthened to make them most autonomous councils in India’

Srinagar: The year 2018 turned out to be the bloodiest years in over a decade, figures released by the ministry of home affairs (MHA) as 587 incidents took place in which 238 militants were killed while as forces too sustained a major jolt as 86 forces personnel and 37 persons were killed.

“Forces launched concerted anti-militancy operations resulting in significant gains. 238 militants were killed in as many as 587 incidents while 86 security forces personnel were martyred and 37 civilians killed this year as on December 2, 2018,” the report released by the MHA stated, a copy of which is available with the KNO.

In June the Union Ministry of Home Affairs conveyed its approval for raising two women Battalions for J&K Police. The report said that Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh paid a two-day visit to J&K on June 7 where he announced sanction of grants-in-aid amounting to Rs. 14.30 crore for Block level sports in the state under the ‘Khelo India’ Scheme by the Union Sports Ministry.

“The Union Home Minister paid another two-day visit to J&K the next month, on July 4, 2018, during which he reviewed the security situation and developmental issues in the State. Most significant of these was the peaceful conduct of the historic Local Body Elections.

Ahead of the landmark local body elections in the State, the Union Home Minister again visited Srinagar on October 23 and reviewed the security situation,” the report states. “The local body elections helped re-establish the long overdue grassroots level democracy in J&K.”

The urban local body elections were held after 2005 and Panchayat elections after 2011. These elections have paved the way for making available nearly Rs. 4,335 Crores of 14th Finance Commission Central grants to the duly constituted local bodies.

Central Government provided all possible support to the State Government for smooth conduct of these elections including deployment of Central forces in sufficient numbers.

The Leh and Kargil Autonomous Hill Development Councils have been strengthened and empowered to become the most autonomous councils in the country to address various issues being faced by people living in the remote areas of Ladakh region.

The LAHDC & KAHDC have been given more powers to levy and collect local taxes. Control has been given over functioning of various departments as well as the Government employees working for the subjects that stand transferred to them.(KNO)

Srinagar: Citing unemployment and lack of infrastructure as reasons for militancy in Kashmir Valley, senior BJP leader and National Vice President Youth Engineer Ajaz Hussain Monday said that the lack of accountability and rampant corruption has given rise to massive unemployment.

He said it is shocking to know that highly qualified youth are seeking menial jobs and are getting meagre salaries. “Unemployed youth are frustrated and those who work on meagre salaries want to get rid of their miseries by picking up gun. These youth find salvation in gun only,” he said.

Ajaz Hussain said that it was the obligation of successive governments to create employment opportunities but these governments miserably failed. “Ironically, fingers are frequently being raised on recruitment agencies for their biased and corrupt practices. Governor Administration should make recruitment agencies accountable so that they won’t exploit the qualified youth,” he said adding that unemployment has caused frustration among the youth and the roots of militancy lies there.

Srinagar: The ecologically-fragile Jammu and Kashmir is most vulnerable to climate change among states in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR), a study has revealed.

Being an eco-fragile zone, the state is confronted with environmental challenges due to global warming, unplanned urbanisation, deforestation and vandalisation of water bodies, according to the study titled ‘climate vulnerability assessment for the Indian Himalayan Region using a common framework’.

J&K has been facing erratic weather patterns for the past nearly two decades, resulting in drought-like situations, flashfloods and windstorms. Incessant rains and cloudbursts caused devastating floods in Kashmir in 2014. In November this year, the Valley received untimely snowfall, causing extensive damage to apple orchards in its southern areas.

The study was conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi and the Indian Institute of Sciences Bangalore in collaboration with the ‘Climate Change Cells’ of each Himalayan State including Jammu and Kashmir.

The study aimed to understand climate change vulnerabilities which could help in development of adaptation strategies and ecosystem management for the Himalayan region.

The vulnerability assessment was done on the basis of four major factors: socio-economic, demographic and health status, sensitivity of agricultural production, forest-dependent livelihoods and access to information services and infrastructure.

According to the study, the vulnerability index is “found to be highest for Assam and Mizoram, followed by Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya and West Bengal, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh and Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand”.

The district-wise assessment of the study relating to J&K was presented by Majid Farooq, scientist and state coordinator Climate Change Centre, Department of Ecology, Environment and Remote Sensing, at the recently-held United Nations COP24 Climate Change Conference organised in Katowice, Poland.

This is for the first time that a Kashmiri scientist has made a presentation about integration of vulnerability assessment in planning and climate change adaptation practices in J&K at the UNCCC.

This year’s theme was “changing together”, referring to the determination of all parties to adopt the course of COP24 decisions which are necessary to implement the Paris Agreement.

“The study has found that Jammu and Kashmir has the third highest vulnerability ranking among the Indian Himalayan States, mainly because it has no area under crop insurance, its most geographical area is under sensitive slope, it has least road density, low percentage of area under horticulture crops, relatively low participation in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Scheme, low livestock to human ratio and low percentage of women in the overall workforce, among other factors. Assam and Mizoram are most vulnerable to climate change among the Himalayan states,” Farooq told Greater Kashmir.

The study was conducted in J&K on various parameters crucial for adaptation to climate change such as irrigated area, per-capita income, area under crop insurance, forest cover and the extent of slopes, population density, infant mortality rate, communication facilities and livelihood options.

The data for these parameters has been taken from government records such as the census, annual reports and remote sensing data and field observations.

The team of scientists headed by Farooq found that Kargil district ranked highest on the vulnerability index, while Kathua and Udhampur were the lowest in relation to other districts assessed in the state.

“Vulnerability to climate change is not about how much high temperature or varied precipitation the state is going to experience. It is about social, economic and environmental resources you have access to. Therefore, it will include finance, infrastructure, planning and many other factors,” Farooq said.

He said this vulnerability ranking will help the government in prioritising districts, blocks, villages, communities, forest types and cropping systems in the state for adaptation and mitigation investments on scientific basis.

“Though the outcome of the study shows few districts are least vulnerable, but that doesn’t essentially mean that these districts are not vulnerable. It is just the intensity of vulnerability is lesser than others. This is just one of the aspects of addressing climate change issues in the state using rapid assessment. There are many more aspects which need to be researched.”

Although the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has accepted State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) submitted by the J&K government worth Rs 65 billion in 2014, however due to limited funding options available in central ministries, it is yet to carry out any work at large scale.

Till date, only one project proposal has been approved under the National Adaptation Fund for Climate Change (NAFCC) to the state’s agriculture department titled “Climate Resilient Sustainable Agriculture in Rain-Fed Farming Areas of J&K.

“But the intervention, being a pilot project, has been limited to Budgam block in Kashmir region and Bhalwal block in Jammu region because of meager funding,” Farooq said.

He stressed that instead of relying on limited availability of funding resources in central ministries, the state departments involved in implementing SAPCC should focus on synchronising the adaptation practices with the ongoing flagship schemes like MGNREGA, CAMPA and IWMP of the government of India. “There is a need for stronger coordination between science and policy. We have some leading researchers in the state, they should come forward and at the same time relevant departments should also reciprocate. The research being undertaken in our universities and research centres should be focussed on improving the adaptation strategies, with primary focus for usefulness and applicability of research for the society”, he said.

The study highlights that the Himalayan ecosystem is vital to ecological security of the region as it plays a crucial role in providing forest cover, feeding perennial rivers that are the source of drinking water, irrigation, and hydropower, conserving biodiversity, providing a rich base for high-value agriculture and landscapes for sustainable tourism.

Srinagar: A Parliamentary panel has recommended to the government of India to make adequate financial allocation and infrastructure available for an extensive study of the Himalayan ecosystem to measure the extent of glacial retreat and the ways to mitigate its effects.
Noting that glaciers in the Himalayan region are retreating at an “alarming rate” and that there is a need to regulate tourism activities, the panel has also suggested the Centre to constitute a committee of experts to formulate the guidelines to be observed while preparing the roadmap for Himalayan Eco-tourism.

The Committee on Estimates (2018-19) in its 30th report on performance of the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) said urgent steps are required to create a mechanism involving all stakeholders who are directly or indirectly affected by the changes in Himalayan system so that integrated approach is adopted in the entire region.
Such a platform will need international cooperation from all the countries falling in or connected to the Himalayan range, it pointed out.
The panel chaired by senior BJP leader MurliManohar Joshi noted that “reckless and irresponsible” tourism in the Himalayan ecosystem is one of the major reasons for environmental degradation and asserted that with the construction of roads and luxurious amenities for tourists, the number of people visiting has vastly increased which is increasing the pressure on the ecosystem.
As a result of large number of visitors, the roads, the houses, the hotels and resorts –all of these have to be constructed by cutting mountains and many of these constructions are not as per specifications for mountains but are more inspired by plain areas, the panel said. It recommended public awareness campaigns for sensitising people about vulnerability of Himalayan region and need for sustainable tourism be undertaken by the government.
“The committee, therefore, recommends that adequate financial allocation be made and adequate infrastructure be created for extensive study of the Himalayan ecosystem to measure the retreat of all the glaciers existing in the region and the ways to mitigate its effects. Besides there is a need to regulate Himalayan eco-tourism. A committee comprising experts should be constituted to formulate the guidelines to be observed while preparing the roadmap for Himalayan eco-tourism,” the committee said.
Quoting media reports, the committee said due to glacial retreat, the Himalayan region has lost 13 per cent of its glaciers in the last four decades resulting in loss of 443 billion tonnes (Gt) glacial ice. The rate of retreat of glaciers in the region, which varies from glacier to glacier, ranges from a few metres to almost 61 m/year, it said adding if the same rate continues it is apprehended that the glaciers are likely to disappear by the year 2035.
It is also reported that the rate of glacial loss in the Himalayas has accelerated over the decades, from around 9 Gt/year in 1975-85 to 20 Gt/year in 2000-2010, it said. It also added that glaciers are reported to be retreating faster in Western Himalayas than in Sikkim and asserted that the effect of glacial retreat and their eventual disappearance will change the weather pattern and be catastrophic for the entire region affecting crop cycles, economic development, health, water availability, weather among others.
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‘Himalayan glaciers retreating at alarming rate’
Parliament panel calls for capping tourism activities
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New Delhi | Posted : Dec 24 2018 1:35AM | Updated: Dec 24 2018 12:36AM

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A Parliamentary panel has recommended to the government of India to make adequate financial allocation and infrastructure available for an extensive study of the Himalayan ecosystem to measure the extent of glacial retreat and the ways to mitigate its effects.
Noting that glaciers in the Himalayan region are retreating at an “alarming rate” and that there is a need to regulate tourism activities, the panel has also suggested the Centre to constitute a committee of experts to formulate the guidelines to be observed while preparing the roadmap for Himalayan Eco-tourism.

The Committee on Estimates (2018-19) in its 30th report on performance of the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) said urgent steps are required to create a mechanism involving all stakeholders who are directly or indirectly affected by the changes in Himalayan system so that integrated approach is adopted in the entire region.
Such a platform will need international cooperation from all the countries falling in or connected to the Himalayan range, it pointed out.
The panel chaired by senior BJP leader MurliManohar Joshi noted that “reckless and irresponsible” tourism in the Himalayan ecosystem is one of the major reasons for environmental degradation and asserted that with the construction of roads and luxurious amenities for tourists, the number of people visiting has vastly increased which is increasing the pressure on the ecosystem.
As a result of large number of visitors, the roads, the houses, the hotels and resorts –all of these have to be constructed by cutting mountains and many of these constructions are not as per specifications for mountains but are more inspired by plain areas, the panel said. It recommended public awareness campaigns for sensitising people about vulnerability of Himalayan region and need for sustainable tourism be undertaken by the government.
“The committee, therefore, recommends that adequate financial allocation be made and adequate infrastructure be created for extensive study of the Himalayan ecosystem to measure the retreat of all the glaciers existing in the region and the ways to mitigate its effects. Besides there is a need to regulate Himalayan eco-tourism. A committee comprising experts should be constituted to formulate the guidelines to be observed while preparing the roadmap for Himalayan eco-tourism,” the committee said.
Quoting media reports, the committee said due to glacial retreat, the Himalayan region has lost 13 per cent of its glaciers in the last four decades resulting in loss of 443 billion tonnes (Gt) glacial ice. The rate of retreat of glaciers in the region, which varies from glacier to glacier, ranges from a few metres to almost 61 m/year, it said adding if the same rate continues it is apprehended that the glaciers are likely to disappear by the year 2035.
It is also reported that the rate of glacial loss in the Himalayas has accelerated over the decades, from around 9 Gt/year in 1975-85 to 20 Gt/year in 2000-2010, it said. It also added that glaciers are reported to be retreating faster in Western Himalayas than in Sikkim and asserted that the effect of glacial retreat and their eventual disappearance will change the weather pattern and be catastrophic for the entire region affecting crop cycles, economic development, health, water availability, weather among others.

Jammu: Peoples Conference chief Sajad Gani Lone on Sunday pledged to safegaurd and restore constitutionally granted special status of Jammu and Kashmir to its original form.

“We are committed to safeguarding Article 35-A and Article 370 from any further erosion and will support all sincere efforts to
restore the state’s special status to its pristine form,” he said.

Refering to NC and PDP, he said it was imperative to “expose their active role
in the erosion of Article 370 till now” and will come up white paper.

“They were co-conspirators in every single script and machination launched against the state’s special status. We will come up with a factual detailed white paper clearly exposing their devious role”, Lone said while welcoming fresh entrants to his party at Jammu.

The fresh entrants including former MLA Zanskar Muhammad Baqir Rizvi, former PDP spokesperson and a prominent leader from Bani Constituency Abhijeet Jasrotia, Nitin Jamwal, Parshotam Kumar,
Ashish Pandita, Advocate Abrar Ahmed Khan and Advocate Irfan Inqlabi were welcomed at a function in Jammu.

PC president Sajad Gani Lone said that the party believes that “J&K is a diverse mix of heterogeneous expectation and that the party would strive to deliver on these expectations with utmost sincerity and conviction”.

Senior Peoples’ Conference leader Imran Reza Ansari, who was present on the occasion, welcomed the new entrants and said the party is rapidly emerging as an alternative and would fight the traditional system of “tyranny, corruption and monopoly” in all the three regions.

“The twin regional parties who – keeping all their cosmetic differences at bay – have come together in an alliance of opportunism
and greed in the State to prolong their familial monopoly. This monopoly has been a source of great suffering and misery for people in
all the three regions of the State and we will fight against the NC-PDP alliance by delivering much needed change based on the
empowerment of the traditionally disempowered sections”, said Ansari.

Speaking on the occasion, Sajad Gani Lone said that his party would ensure that all the three regions of the state unite under a common goal to usher into an era of good
governance, peace and amity.

“We are committed to delivering on the
heterogeneous expectations of people from the three regions of the state. Our focus is to empower dedicated, grassroots voices and
leaders in all the three regions and create a cohesive, coherent political alternative to the traditional twin-party politics of theatrics, lies and hypocrisy. You will see the party strengthening its presence in every constituency of the State”, Lone added.

“The twin regional dynasts came together with a single purpose to fight against the emerging alternative – which they naturally consider a threat to their monopolistic system of exploitation, corruption and
loot,” he said.

The new entrants pledged to strengthen the party at the grassroots level in all the three regions of the State and said the mission of
ushering the State into a corrective era of change was a “sacred cause that would define the future of our coming generations”.

Batting for gender equality, Alia wants parents to give breathing space to daughters

Srinagar: The first women certified trainer Aliya Farooq has spread the wings of physical fitness among women in volatile parts of old Srinagar city and today she has the enrollment of over fifty women who are undergoing physical fitness training at her gym centre.
Claiming to have scripted a new success story in the field of physical fitness, a woman entrepreneur in Khanyar area of old Srinagar city Aliya Farooq told Kashmir News Service (KNS) that she has established a gym centre exclusively for women attracting a large number of women for physical fitness training.
The journey of Alia to establish a gym centre and initiate a process of training in physical fitness for the girls of old Srinagar city has hit many road blocks as her husband had the experience of failing to run a gym centre he had started way back in 2000 in the Khanyar area in old Srinagar city.
After her husband failed to run the gym centre smoothly, he hired the services of a mail trainer in the year 2010 but the mail trainer too failed to run the gym centre on commercial lines. In 2012 Alia a first woman trainer registered by body building federation of India, herself took up the challenge and started training young girls at her gym centre. In short span of time the gym centre was popular and women in large numbers today are enrolled at the gym centre where they undergo physical fitness training.
Stressing upon the gender equality, Aliya told Kashmir News Service (KNS) that time has come for the parents to give girls a breathing space as today’s world focuses on women empowerment and Kashmir should be no exception.

Srinagar: The deplorable position of the Ummah is the outcome of differences and divisions amongst it. Operation All-Out is the deep rooted conspiracy against the citizens of the state.

President Jamiat Ahlihadees J&K Prof. Gulam Muhammad Bhat Al-Madani in a press conference stated that the cold blood killing of blooming buds of the state is the outcome of mental frustration. All the parties should come forward for the solution of the Kashmir issue.

In the great convention of Majlis Shora held today (23/12/2018) at Salafia Istitute Paray pora Srinagar which was presided by Sadr Jamiat Prof. Gulam Muhammad Bhat Al-Madani, all the dignified members belonging to Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh (all the three divisions of state) participated.

The performance of action plans of JAH for the current year was deliberated in detail and Alhumdulillah all the members where satisfied with it. Also development plan for the next year was formulated.

In a statement to Valley Media Service, while addressing the Shora convention President JAH Prof. G M Bhat Al-Madani expressed his serious concern over the blood sheds and innocent killings made under the garb of operation All-Out and called it as a mental frustration and deep rooted conspiracy against the youths of the state. Putting more there 400 youths in eternal sleep in a short period of time, is really a point of concern for all of us. We should give it a serious thought. Killings by unknown persons, putting the youths behind the bars, arresting the leaders, harassment by various agencies, which have given rise to lawlessness throughout the whole state, cannot be tolerated henceforth. Stress was laid for the permanent solution of the Kashmir issue to have an end of the Anarchy and lawlessness presently prevailing in the state.

Secretary General Dr. Abdul Lateef Al-Kindi while quoting his participation in the international convocation on “Unity of Islamic Ummah” held by World Islamic Mission stated that the convocation was held to develop the Unity and Coordination amongst the Islamic Ummah to end the era of differences and divisions. It is really a point of honor for the Jamiat Ahlihadees J&K that it’s higher ups where invited to participate in the said dignified convention.

It will be proper to mention that 1200 religious scholars, thinkers from almost 127 countries of the world, participated in the said convention and appreciated the keen interest shown by the present political and religious administration of Saudi Arabia to ensure the coordination and cooperation amongst the Islamic Ummah. Highlighting the highest level of religious importance of Makka Mukarrama and Madina Munawwara, as a point of unity, Hundreds of religious scholar’s representatives from various Islamic governments and other dignified participants stated in one voice that the Ummah which believe in one Creator (Allah), Aqeedah Risaalah, one Holy Quran, one Qibla and the straight path (Siraat e Mustaqeem) can never get detracted and divided.

The issue has to be given a serious thought, so that the Ummah again touches the highest level of success in this behalf.

Jamiat Ahlihadees J&K while agreeing with the point of view of Islamic World, appeals the nation to be one like an iron wall for the larger unity of the nation.

The Secretary General JAH while presenting the Annual Report of JAH raised the issue of Trans-World Muslim University with intensity and laid stress for the removal of bottlenecks held in the process of its establishment.

While addressing the Majlis Shora, Mufti Jamiat Molana Muhammad Yaqood Baba Sahab Al-Madani, Organazier JAH Shafat Ahmad Farooqi Sahib, Molana Abdul Lateef Riyazi Sahab, Enginier Ashiq Hussain Sahib, Moulana Abdul Lateef Bhat Sahib, Nasrullah Bhat Sahib and other dignified participants stated that the convocation by the World Islamic Mission was the need of the hour to ensure that Islamic knowledge is spread throughout the corners of the world for religious propagation, so that peace and harmony get established.

While appreciating The role of JAH in educational, constructive, religious and social fields, the participants from all the three divisions of the state laid stress that such programs should be carried out in future also with higher level of performance.

However the Shora Ijlaas concluded Alhumdulillah with the Dua (Pray) by Mufti Muhammad Yaqoob Baba Sahab.