Srinagar, June 30: Lashing out Union Power Ministry for counseling Jammu and Kashmir government to take up the issue of transfer of power projects from NHPC with the Prime Minister’s Office , Kashmir Civil Society (KCS) on Saturday  termed it a conspiracy to politicize an issue which is technical in nature and legal in ramifications.
 Members of the civil society spearheading the campaign for return of power projects, Muhammad Khursheed Aalam, Sayed Shakil Qalander and Bashir Assad in a joint statement termed the statement of Union Power Ministry as unfortunate and illogical for the issue of return of power projects to the state is of pure technical nature and involves legality in terms of the agreements and Memoranda  of Understanding sighed by the state government with the union of India through its subsidiary NHPC from time to time, however,    advising the state government to approach PMO  amounts to  politicizing  a technical issues only to buy the time. “This clearly indicates that Union Power Ministry is not inclined to return the projects to the state as laid down in terms and conditions for execution, operation, maintenance and transfer  of  the power projects run by NHPC on the waters of Jammu and Kashmir” the civil society members said.
 The trio alleged that state government was never serious in taking back the projects from NHPC’s  illegal occupation. “Cabinet Sub Committee Report on the issue was full of ambiguity, however, the members of CSC  continued to issue baseless statements to hoodwink the people,” they added.

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