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Jammu,November 19 (Vijay Kumar) – Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Thursday expressed satisfaction over the relation between the armed forces and the civil administration particularly with Army and expressed hope that the ties between the two will grow further to serve the state and its people in the best way. “The working relations between the two are good and we have to further strengthen these to create a homogenous thought process in settling various issues and carrying forward activities of mutual interests” he said adding that concern for the state and the people is the concern of both civil and army administration, as such, decision making should reflect the same spirit.
Omar was speaking in Civil Military Liaison Conference held on Thuresday at the Banquet Hall, Wazarat Road, Jammu. Top officials from the State Government and Army Headquarters Western Command participated in this one day annual conference.Omar stressed on making Civil-Military Liaison Conferences (CMLC) more pro-active to thrash out issues of mutual interests and resolve these speedily. “The CMLCs provide the right platform for quick decision making at the top level settling the non-strategic and non-security related issues pertaining to revenue, compensation, development etc. promptly” he added.
Chairing the CMLC of Western and Northern Commands here, Omar underlined the need for further strengthening the relations between civil and army administration for the larger interests of the people. “While Unified Command meetings provide for addressing the security related issues, the civil matters could be easily worked out at the CMLCs” he said.
“The degree of co-operation and co-ordination between civil administration and army has increased and our efforts should be to further strengthen it”, he said saying the close rapport between army and civil government is all the more important in a border state like Jammu and Kashmir.
Omar emphasized on regular interactions between the representatives of the Army and Civil Administration at Divisional Commissioners levels so that issues of lesser magnitudes could be sorted out there for final decision at the CMLC. “I will suggest three to four such meetings in a year between the civil administration and Army representatives” he said adding that this mechanism will prove fruitful in quick decision making.
Speaking in the conference, the Lt. Gen T. K. Sapru and Lt. Gen B. S. Jaswal Commanders of Western and Northern Commands expressed gratitude to the Chief Minister for chairing the conference and providing opportunity to both civil and army administrations to discuss and sort out issues of mutual interests.
Both the Commanders extended fullest support to the Chief Minister and civil administration from their side adding that the cause of the state and its people is their cause. “We are here for the cause of the people and the state” they added and assured full cooperation for resolving the issues of mutual interests.
The Army Commanders also referred to the service army is rendering in the developmental field under Operation Sadhbavna.
The Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chand was also present in the conference.
Lt. Gen T. K. Sapru, GOC-in-C Western Command, Lt. Gen B. S. Jaswal, GOC-in-C Northern Command, Lt. Generals B. K. Chengapa, G.M. Nair, S. K. Singh, Bikram Singh, Rameshwar Roy, N. C. Marwah, Air Vice Marshal J. Chauhan, Maj Generals P. S. Chib, Vijai Sharma, A.V. Balakrishnan, S. P. S. Katewa, N. S. Vidyarthi, K. Surendranath, Brigadiers R. R. Nimbhorkar, Virender Kumar, U. K. Roy, Raman Dhawan, B. S. Das, Praveen Joshi, I. Narayana, K. K. Roy Choudhary, D. S. Sandhu, Hament Joneja, Cols, Manjinder Singh, R. B. S. Lamba, Sanjeev Kumar, S. K. Suhag, Vivek Kumar, R. V. Singh, Vinod, Praveen Sawhney, Deepak Rampal, K. D. Singh, Principal Director, Defence R. K. Chopra and other senior officers of armed forces attending the conference.
The state team headed by Chief Secretary, S. S. Kapur included Financial Commissioner Home, Verghese Samuel, Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda, Financial Commissioner, Revenue, R. K. Jerath, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Khursheed Ahmed Ganai, Commissioner Secretaries Mehboob Iqbal, Abdul Hameed, Shantmanu, Divisional Commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir divisions, Pawan Kotwal and Ms. Naseema Lanker, Secretaries, Ms. Tanveer Jahan, Sheikh Eijaz Iqbal, Tashi Dorje, Additional DGP CID, K. Rajinder Kumar, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Jagdish Keshuram and other senior officers.