Security tightened ahead of PM’s Srinagar visit Nov 5, 4:04 pm

Authorities tightened security dramatically in parts of Indian-administered Kashmir on Friday to prevent protests ahead of a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“Our rally will be a message to India to read the writing on the wall that Kashmiris are against Indian occupation”, said Ayaz Akbar, a spokesman for the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella group of separatist political and religious parties.

Modi emphasized that the good tidings for the economy didn’t come by accident and the success was the result of a series of well thought out policies on fiscal consolidation, public investment, subsidies and expenditure management. My appeal to all of you is to think beyond conventional remedies.

The day-long discussions through various sessions, will focus on topics as varied as the Indian and global experience in cash transfers, benefits and risks of biometric authentication, beneficiaries’ experiences with technology-based targeting, financial inclusion, perspective of the states and the vision for JAM’s future. Delivering the inaugural address at the Delhi Economics Conclave 2015 here, Mr Modi said reform is not meant just to increase GDP.

Recalling various initiatives taken on the economic front, Modi said the government has endeavoured to pursue inclusive and broad-based reforms stressing it is a marathon and not a sprint. The Prime Minister said that the Jan-Dhan accounts at present have a total balance of nearly Rs 26,000 crore.

All business establishments, schools and colleges have been closed in view of the apprehensions of law and order problem during the high-profile visit. Earlier, electronic returns had to be followed by a paper verification which used to take weeks to be processed. When he went to U.S. it was said that crowds are being airlifted from India now they will say that crowd has been lifted from Tamil Nadu and other states to Kashmir. They said in their speeches that Sikhs were eager to join protest to tell Narendra Modi and the Indian establishment that they would not rest until they got justice and the vendetta of the Indian establishment against them stopped. Maximum empowerment for our poor.

He also said the government has introduced healthy competition in the debit and credit card space. Indian banks have been encourage for mobile ATMs.today 36 per cent debit card are RuPay cards.

The local government is expecting an announcement of a mega financial package from Modi for the rehabilitation of flood victims. “India has tremendous entrepreneur energy and this needs to be harnessed so that we become a nation of job creators rather than seekers”, the Prime Minister said.