AlJazeeraEnglish | July 13, 2010 | 9 likes, 2 dislikes
Indian census takers are collecting data from people living around Dal lake in Srinagar, the main district of Indian-administered Kashmir, in a new initiative to improve living conditions there.
It aims to identify what the residents lack and need ranging from healthcare to housing facilities.
But in India's only Muslim-majority region, the census is seen by many as having highly political motives.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a Kashmiri separatist leader, told Al Jazeera that most of the people that live around the lake are migrants from other Indian states and said the government is trying to change the region's demographics.
Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports from Kashmir.
[July 13, 2010]
Negation of rights to religious minorities & bulldozing by violence prone Kashmiri Sunni majority. Violence in all the 3 regions. Dark Days Started for the Religious Minorities (Hindus/Sikhs/Buddhists/Christians/Shias) in J&K in 1947. Kashmir valley is Smaller than Goa (valley alone without Jammu & Ladakh) Precisely 75 KM in Length and 25 KM in width..YES....a tiny itsy bitsy piece of land.and this tiny 75*25 KM Land. And India is stuck in this blackhole! 0.345M PViews Anil Kumar
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