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Governance

The state craft has evolved differently in Jammu and Kashmir over the years. This section offers narratives about the various facets of the governance in between various elected governments and the governors.

Kalakote: A Silenced Coalfield

Mining in Kalakote (Rajouri) has stopped after safety orders, while Rs 71.34 crore provident fund dues and a Rs 179.04 crore claim over the...

Kashmir: A Generation in Waiting

In Jammu and Kashmir, daily wagers’ insecurity, stalled regularisation, skewed reservations, 77,099 vacancies and rising unemployment deepen youth despair, even as credit schemes like...

Kashmir’s Stray Scourge

Surging dog-bite cases across Kashmir reveal a deepening public health crisis, driven by unchecked stray populations, waste mismanagement, delayed treatment, and systemic failure to...

Kashmir: The Mosque Mapping

Jammu and Kashmir Police’s mosque profiling drive, seeking exhaustive institutional and personal data, has triggered widespread unease, with leaders calling it invasive, unconstitutional surveillance...

Kashmir’s Kitchen Fear

Egg contamination fears in Kashmir have triggered widespread panic, collapsing demand, drawing political intervention, exposing heavy import dependence, and reviving concerns over weak food...

Kashmir: The Vanishing Sarkari Noukri

In Jammu and Kashmir, the state workforce is shrinking fast as recruitment slows and contractual hiring rises. As the salaries decline, pensions soar, unemployment...

Kashmir: A Daughter’s Promise

The Ladli Beti scheme has transformed attitudes toward daughters in Jammu and Kashmir, offering financial security despite procedural hurdles. In districts suffering from a...
Jammu journalist, Arfaz Dain, Kuldeep Sharma

Narwal: Bulldozer Births Brotherhood

A politically fraught demolition of journalist Arfaz Daing’s home in Jammu has triggered public outrage, official denials, political confrontation, and an unexpected chain of...

Ladakh: CBMs In Demand

Ladakh’s two major bodies have submitted a comprehensive demand for Statehood, Sixth Schedule protections and general amnesty after the September violence, insisting these measures...

Kashmir Bride Aid

Jammu and Kashmir’s Marriage Assistance Scheme, aiding over 1.5 lakh poor women since 2015 with around Rs 500 crore, continues expanding after the government...

Kashmir: Back To the Move

Omar Abdullah’s revival of the Durbar Move marks more than administrative nostalgia; it is a symbolic assertion to reunite Jammu and Kashmir politically, economically,...

Kashmir: Merit Under Siege

Jammu and Kashmir’s Assembly avoided debate on its deepening reservation regime even as new data revealed shrinking open merit opportunities, regional disparities, and rising...

Kashmir: Undoing Art 370

The BlueKraft Digital Foundation book 370: Undoing the Unjust: A New Future for J&K, gives an insider’s account of the planning and execution of...

Kashmir: A Mandate Marginalised

Despite a landslide mandate, Omar Abdullah leads a government stripped of autonomy, with key powers resting in the Raj Bhawan, revealing the deep imbalance...
Houses and lanes submerged as authorities keep high alert

Kashmir: 2025 Floods Data

Even though official agencies are still busy tracing the missing and surveying the impacted communities, the latest official data offers some idea of the...