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| Two weeks before Darbar move, Ministers abandon civil secretariat | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 16: A fortnight ahead of darbar to to move to winter capital officially, the ministers of the ruling BJP-0PDP coalition government have abandoned the civil secretariat at the summer capital. Hardly any Minister was seen in the secretariat on Friday and their office chambers were locked.
ET reporter who visited the Secretariat on Friday found that barring a few Ministersentire council of ministers was absconding. "They are already in shifting mode" an official manning a minister's office said.
He said that visitors, who are allowed entry into the secretariat after 1 pm, hardly get an opportunity to meet ministers. "It is an unprecedented scenario witnessed this time in the civil secretariat. The chambers of ministers are seen either closed or visitors waiting for hours in vain,"
The visitors alleged that instead of meeting people in the civil secretariat, most of the ministers try to avoid visitors. "Industries and Commerce Minister, Education Minister and the Revenue Minister haven't visited the civil secretariat. We have been told by the officials that they are on tours to various parts of the state," one of the visitor said.
Sources in various departments within the Secretariat said this is perhaps for the first time in years, that ministers continue to stay away from the offices for most days every weeks.
Several visitors complained that though some ministers stay in their offices till afternoon but when it is time to meet visitors, they either leave the civil secretariat or call a meeting of officers so that they don't have to face the public and listen to their grievances. "I reached Srinagar around 11 am and waited till 1 pm to get entry into the civil secretariat. An official of the Education Department forwarded my file but once I reached the office of the education Minister, he was not there," said Farooq Ahmad, a resident of Kupwara.
Some BJP ministers, too, are currently away to Jammu and are not expected to be back now. |
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