Thief in the dress of .......!!!
March 28,2018: There have been a number of shady and fraudulent dealings from last one decade in Pahalgam's 18 hole golf course and it is an open secret, we have been raising our voice time to time against it but nobody seems to have cared. Conditional Contracts invited PDA for maintainence of said golf course and repeatedly have been granted to benefit certain class of people and huts have been constructed in 2012-13 by cutting of green forests with the support of PDA . The trend of diverting developmental funds from Pahalgam's poor local population and redirected to construction and maintainence of golf course, clubs and huts, continues till today. Even the local people of Laripora whose land was confiscated to build the golf course have not been given jobs as promised and their children only given contractual jobs through contractors till today, the government or PDA not provided them a job, who were promised at that time.
We fail to understand what could be the rationale behind such a discriminatory, exclusionary and anti people policies of the government, where funds that could be used for building roads, hospitals and schools are instead diverted for elite clubs and expensive sports facilities,due to this there is no benefit for Poor and common people of the area...
I ask this question to the government and Pahalgam Development Authority -PDA as to how much they have generated and earned from these golf course, club and huts since 2014 and how do these earnings compare to a similar investment that could have been made in health and education and if they haven't even generated sufficient earnings from these facilities who are they being run for obviously at the local ordinary people's cost??
Mushtaq Pahalgami,
Himalayan Welfare Organization-HWO
(Photo Date December 2013 when these golf course huts were built )
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