Faisul Yaseen From free rice in 1953 to Manmohan Singh’s Rs 24,000 crore package in 2004, from Rajiv Gandhi’s proposed Rs 10,000 crore package in 1987 to H D Deve Gowda’s Rs 301 crore package in 1996, Government of India (GoI) has been pumping money into Jammu Kashmir but failed to get the results it desired. Why did all these financial packages fail? Noted Kashmiri economist, Prof. Nisar Ali said these packages had been unsuccessful as the amount announced by the GoI for Jammu Kashmir had been pumped into its…
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