{"id":10597,"date":"2019-10-10T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T05:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10597"},"modified":"2019-10-10T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T05:27:56","slug":"lockdown-enters-day-67-in-kashmir-valley-it-firms-are-at-the-verge-of-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10597","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Enters Day 67 in Kashmir Valley, IT Firms Are Shutting Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

The communication blackout and shutdown imposed after the abrogation of Article 370 has entered 67th day in Indian occupied Kashmir.<\/p>\n

With no mobiles and internet services, it is the worst communications lockdown the Valley has seen in decades. And it has\u00a0 taken a toll of the Valley’s economy.<\/p>\n

Scores of people risk losing their jobs as IT-related firms are at the verge of shutting down permanently.<\/p>\n

Kashmir\u2019s biggest software park in Rangret area, which houses majority IT-related companies in the state, wears a deserted look.<\/p>\n

BPOs functioning from Kashmir have taken a big hit. Aegis is one of the biggest BPOs at Rangret. The campus is shut. A security guard posted outside said all the 150 employees were asked to stay home as there was no work<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Its\u00a0 walnut season in\u00a0 the occupied\u00a0 valley but the on going lockdown in the disputed region has made it impossible for farmers to sell them on markets.<\/p>\n

According to the officials, most of the walnuts sold in India comes from villages of Kashmir valley and\u00a0 thousands of people are directly or indirectly part of this business\u00a0 and are extremely worried.<\/p>\n

This is the\u00a0 alarming situation for all the farmers here, whether they are apple or walnut growers. They are in a grim position. They could be at risk of\u00a0 bankruptcy, because they loan from finance companies and invest it in\u00a0 big grain business.<\/p>\n

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Famous crispy and popular \u201cpaper Walnuts\u201d before drying them in outskirts of Srinagar to be exported as its high demand in the market bustle the business in Kashmir valley on Saturday
PHOTO BY BILAL BAHADUR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During this three months harvesting period walnuts are sold\u00a0 to the domestic\u00a0 and international markets. However this year, due to the blockade\u00a0 outside merchants have not\u00a0 been able to come to the valley and Kashmir\u00a0 produce hasn’t been able to reach\u00a0 the markets.<\/p>\n

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The tourism season in the Valley was completely ruined this year as the government issued an advisory asking visitors to leave just before the abrogation of Article 370 was announced.<\/p>\n

However, the restrictions imposed on tourists intending to visit the Kashmir Valley will be lifted today following a direction from Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Monday.<\/p>\n

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The communication blackout and shutdown imposed after the abrogation of Article 370 has entered 67th day in Indian occupied Kashmir. With no mobiles and internet services, it is the worst communications lockdown the Valley has seen in decades. And it has\u00a0 taken a toll of the Valley’s economy. Scores of people risk losing their jobs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1467,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10597"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10612,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597\/revisions\/10612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}