BILAL HUSSAIN
FRUIT TRUCKS READY TO MARCH
"SHOULD AUTHORITIES IMPOSE CURFEW, WE'LL DEFY IT"
Srinagar: A day before the joint call to march towards Muzaffarbad on Monday, fruit growers busily loaded their trucks at Parimpora Mandi on Sunday.
Horticulture, one of the major contributing sectors to the state's gross domestic product (GDP), has badly been affected by the enforced economic blockade forcing the fruit growers and traders to look for the Muzaffarabad road option. Similar preparations are under way in other district fruit Madis.
Earlier, the traders, business chambers, industrialists, political and religious organizations of Kahsmir let by the two jointly given a call for "Muzaffarabad Chalo" to counter the blockade.
"Over 100 fruit laden trucks from Srinagar Mandi are ready and more than 50,000 people would join the convoy," president New Kashmir Fruit Association, Bashir Ahmad Bashir told Greater Kashmir on Sunday, "the fruit growers and the traders' fraternity are ready to go on a protest march on the Jhelum Valley Road on Monday."
He said that they have made preparations for all possible threat, even if the government imposed curfew.
He said the trucks from other districts would reach the Parimpora Mandi by 11 am. "We'll meet the fruit trucks from Sopur and Kupwara at Sangrama, he said.
Earlier, pro-freedom leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Saturday had said that fruit-laden trucks from all corners of the Valley would begin their march towards Muzaffarabad on August 11.
The fruit industry of Kashmir estimated a over Rs. 2500 crore annually is in a serious jeopardy following the enforced economic blockade. "There's no alternative other than Jhelum Valley Road," former President Kashmir Fruit Growers Association, Imtiyaz Ahmad said.
President Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Dr. Mubeen Shah, said, "We'll defy all kinds of restrictions."
"It is our right to seek markets for our produce and nobody should have any objection for it," he said.
FRUIT TRUCKS READY TO MARCH
"SHOULD AUTHORITIES IMPOSE CURFEW, WE'LL DEFY IT"
Srinagar: A day before the joint call to march towards Muzaffarbad on Monday, fruit growers busily loaded their trucks at Parimpora Mandi on Sunday.
Horticulture, one of the major contributing sectors to the state's gross domestic product (GDP), has badly been affected by the enforced economic blockade forcing the fruit growers and traders to look for the Muzaffarabad road option. Similar preparations are under way in other district fruit Madis.
Earlier, the traders, business chambers, industrialists, political and religious organizations of Kahsmir let by the two jointly given a call for "Muzaffarabad Chalo" to counter the blockade.
"Over 100 fruit laden trucks from Srinagar Mandi are ready and more than 50,000 people would join the convoy," president New Kashmir Fruit Association, Bashir Ahmad Bashir told Greater Kashmir on Sunday, "the fruit growers and the traders' fraternity are ready to go on a protest march on the Jhelum Valley Road on Monday."
He said that they have made preparations for all possible threat, even if the government imposed curfew.
He said the trucks from other districts would reach the Parimpora Mandi by 11 am. "We'll meet the fruit trucks from Sopur and Kupwara at Sangrama, he said.
Earlier, pro-freedom leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Saturday had said that fruit-laden trucks from all corners of the Valley would begin their march towards Muzaffarabad on August 11.
The fruit industry of Kashmir estimated a over Rs. 2500 crore annually is in a serious jeopardy following the enforced economic blockade. "There's no alternative other than Jhelum Valley Road," former President Kashmir Fruit Growers Association, Imtiyaz Ahmad said.
President Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Dr. Mubeen Shah, said, "We'll defy all kinds of restrictions."
"It is our right to seek markets for our produce and nobody should have any objection for it," he said.
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