The highlight of the manifesto — Haath Badlega Halaat — is insurance for all crops against natural calamities and a minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 72 per kilogram for apple.The manifesto was released by AICC media and publicity department head Pawan Khera and PCC president Tariq Hameed Karra at the party office in Srinagar.”We will provide additional financial support of Rs 4,000 for landless, tenant, and land-owning farming households per year. We will also arrange 99-year leases to landless farmers cultivating state land,” Khera had said.He said a Rs 2,500 crore fund will be set up for all district-level irrigation projects to ensure 100 per cent irrigation for farmers in Jammu and Kashmir.For the youth of Jammu and Kashmir, the party promised an unemployment allowance of up to Rs 3,500 per month for one year to qualified youths.The party has promised to fill one lakh vacant government posts by issuing a job calendar within 30 days.The manifesto states that the party will revive special border recruitment for police, fire brigade and forest protection force.It also promises to revive the scheme for allotment of 30 per cent construction work-related contracts to unemployed engineers’ groups.”We will simplify the verification process for all government jobs, passports and other purposes by making them time-bound and simplified to check undue harassment,” the manifesto reads.”The long night has ended and a new dawn is upon us. Haath badlega Jammu aur Kashmir ke haalaat. The Congress will heal the wounds,” Khera said.
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