He said that health and medical organisations are eyeing on an initial investment of Rs 1,000-2,000 crore for private entrepreneurs for establishment of hospital, medical and allied educational infrastructure and establish the state as a destination of choice for private healthcare service providers, besides promoting medical tourism. 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The state is well above the average for India in terms of human development indicators: It ranks higher than Modi’s native Gujarat, for one. The region’s political system, which functioned even during the difficult years of insurgency, has been upended. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-hand man, Home Minister Amit Shah, is more than anyone else seen as the motive force behind this change, one that pushes forward the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s agenda of a Hindu nationalist renaissance in India. “I don’t want to be part of it now. A single highway leads from Kashmir’s capital through the mountains to the rest of India and, following a terror attack at the beginning of the year, that road is now monopolized by the military. He was a columnist for the Indian Express and the Business Standard, and he is the author of “Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy.”. The state of Jammu and Kashmir, which includes the restive Kashmir Valley, was India’s only Muslim-majority state. The commissioner said that the salient features of the policy include 30 per cent subsidy on capital investment to be provided for setting up of multi-speciality and super-speciality hospitals, medical, nursing and paramedical colleges. “We are in the fresh process to attract global investment into the healthcare setup in Jammu and Kashmir. _taboola.push({ The dam, however, is not part of the ongoing multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, a centerpiece of President Xi Jinping’s global Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Should the authorities permit an election in the future, said Yasir Reshi, a former member of the Kashmiri legislature, the moderates may not take part. The central and state government have a poor track record of investing in Jammu and Kashmir and creating the public infrastructure needed to attract private investment. Dulloo said that most of the dependence of people rests with public health institutes. In recent months, members of the Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., the Hindu nationalist party governing India, have been methodically hunted by militants. The meeting was held to provide inputs, feedback and suggestions for implementation of Education Investment Policy 2020 in Jammu and Kashmir. have become pariahs. He said that Rural-Urban divide is being minimized with J&K Government’s ambitious Back to Village initiative. Alice Wells, who recently retired as the Trump administration’s senior diplomat for South and Central Asia, had been publicly warning that Chinese investments under the CPEC could become a debt trap for Pakistan in the long run, citing relatively high costs and alleged lack of transparency in contracts, among other concerns. He organized rallies and encouraged Kashmiris to vote for a political party that did not want to fight India and would instead accept some degree of Indian authority. 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Dulloo, who is the architect of the ‘State Health Care Investment Policy-2019’, said that focus is not only creation of the best of the best private hospitals in Jammu and Srinagar but also smaller ones in districts and health resorts to boost health and wellness tourism as J&K is natural destination of the world. He said that by robbing Kashmir of its special identity, India did not just disenfranchise Kashmiris, but also dishonored those who stood for it. India is facing an investment crisis at the moment: Private investment has collapsed, hitting a 14-year low at the beginning of 2019. Jared Kushner’s $50-billion plan to remake the Middle East probably falls into the “naive” category; Beijing’s arguments justifying its tyranny in Tibet and Xinjiang, into “cynical.”. “We are living under the smokescreen of a democratic system,” he said. Public investments did not face any land restrictions as we speak. If New Delhi finds new leaders to fill the political vacuum, Mr. Shah said, they would be considered bigger stooges than the previous generation of politicians who could still pull people to polling booths on voting day. Even if the government forces through more investment than Kashmir has seen in past decades, will that ease tensions there? “This will be Pakistan’s third large dam, whereas neighboring China has built nearly 5,000 large dams out of its more than 80,000 dams in total,” Khan said. More than four-and-a-half-lakh kanals”—a unit of measurement popular in Kashmir, which is approximately one-eighth of an acre—“of land was occupied under the use of the central government. Have a confidential tip for our reporters? “I am tired of painting that horse again and again. Islamabad and Beijing have vehemently rejected as misplaced concerns about the CPEC being a “debt trap” or a burden on Pakistan’s economy. Without them, experts say, the Indian government will find it harder to bring peace and stability to the region. Indian forces watching a street in Srinagar, a city in India’s Kashmir region, on the eve of India’s independence day last month. “Give us five years, we will make Jammu and Kashmir the most developed state in India,” Shah told Parliament. “Despite the outbreak of COVID-19, work on the CPEC has been underway in full swing, and new projects under the mutual collaboration will be launched in coming days,” Asim Saleem Bajwa, an aide to the prime minister who is overseeing the massive the program, told a recent meeting of Pakistani and Chinese officials. “In 2018-19 at least 2.39 crore OPD visits of patients were recorded in J&K and out of them 99.2 per cent (2.22 crore patients) were seen only in government hospitals. To contact the author of this story:Mihir Sharma at msharma131@bloomberg.net, To contact the editor responsible for this story:Nisid Hajari at nhajari@bloomberg.net, Coronavirus Is Worsening Delhi’s Air Pollution Crisis. Other Kashmiris, especially the militants, saw these moderate politicians and political party workers as threats. World’s Populists May Regret Their Embrace of Trump. “CPEC, as flagship of BRI, is already a success story, and has entered its second phase successfully," noted Mushahid Hussain, who heads the Pakistani Senate’s foreign affairs committee. “We can also read them, in part, as a defiant response by both Beijing and Islamabad to increasing Indian verbal threats in recent months to make some sort of move on Pakistan-administered Kashmir,” said Kugelman. “Hopefully, not at the cost of Pakistan’s sovereignty, environment, sustainability of debt or corruption. blocking entire neighborhoods and inserting themselves between the Indian soldiers and the militants. Jammu and Kashmir is the only state in the country, which has no major and middle level chain of hospitals operating in the rest of the country. China has invested about $29 billion in Pakistan, including direct investment, soft loans and grants, which has been or is building power plants, roads, rails, the new deep-sea port of Gwadar and an adjoining international airport in Baluchistan province. Mr. Akhtar’s eyes welled with tears. But it may do immense harm. Dozens have fled to mountain retreats. While noting that he could accept the argument that private investments had not ventured into Kashmir post the nineties because of the militancy in Kashmir, he added, “What I am asking is what happened between 1947 and 1991?” Drabu continued, “Why was there no public investment at all? The wife and sons of Sajad Ahmad Khanday, a member of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party, who was gunned down in August. Is that city short of investable funds? Leave aside the fact that the billions pledged at high-profile “investment summits” rarely materialize in practice. Outside, he said, ordinary Kashmiris remind them that India was never trustworthy. After eight days in intensive care, he awoke to discover that the Indian government had seized control of Kashmir. It is expected to generate 4,500 megawatts of inexpensive and clean electricity. So they had no restrictions, why didn’t they invest?”, Drabu emphasised that in a number of states seen as industrially developed, it was the government that created the infrastructure and agreeable conditions for the private sector to enter. Since the region’s autonomy was rescinded last year, Indian forces have killed more than 155 militants in 71 gunfights, according to the police. Indian leaders have repeatedly alleged in recent months that militants are preparing to infiltrate into India-controlled Kashmir from the Pakistani side and warned of a cross-border counter military action which would fuel mutual tensions. Kaushal Shroff is a staff writer at The Caravan. Beijing has also signed within the past month two agreements with Islamabad under the CPEC to directly invest up to $4 billion to develop two hydroelectric power projects in Kashmir, with a total capacity of about 1,800 megawatts.