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| Chaman Lal stresses need for special attention to newly elected bodies | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 10: Terming it as significant achievement the orderly conduct of the election to the basic democracies in the State of J&K, the former Union Minister Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta stressed need for special attention to ensure that these bodies function with the objective of having the Gram Swaraj, the dream of great men like Mahatma Gandhi.
This attention, he said, needed much as the electors had participated in large numbers in the poll process despite the threats of ultras and boycott call by the dubious characters, who would never like the success of this great mission.
Prof. Gupta recalled that Panchayat Raj concept in the State was quite old. This grass root institution concept was taken in 1935 when Maharaja Hari Singh had promulgated Panchayat Regulation Act. The preamble of the Act was very well articulated.
The Panchayats were entrusted to "assist in the administration of the Civil and Criminal Justice and also to manage the sanitation and other common concerns of the village. He regretted that after the end of monarchy in the State the politicians looked never serious to share the powers at the grass root level though they amended and enacted new laws in this regard.
They were not prepared even to adopt the 73rd and 74th amendments of the Indian Constitution to empower these democracies although they had come to power with the lofty slogans of Lok Raj.
How miserably they failed in this regard, is a sad history. |
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