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| Minister converts office building into guest-house for his workers | | | Mustansir
Jammu, June 8: In a glaring example of misuse of official position and privilege, Ministers from a particular party have converted the official buildings into guest houses for their workers visiting Kashmir as tourists. After shifting its office to Bemina in the city outskirts on bypass, the J&K Housing Board office building at Tulsibagh was renovated. On papers the building was reserved for high level meetings and for the stay of the top officials during their visit to Srinagar in winters when the offices function at Jammu. However, the Minister in-charge Housing, in misuse of his official position, converted the office building into a guest house for the stay of his workers during the summers.
The matter, however, does not end here, for those who stay in the office building as the guests of the minister, there are four or five cooks who draw salary from the exchequer preparing food for the political workers of the Minister.
Though during the turmoil, the mainstream political leaders and workers were using government buildings for official cum residential purposes, however, in 2008 the government issued directions to the political leaders asking them to vacate the buildings occupied by them and their party workers.
Till then important government buildings like R&B residential hutments/rest houses, PHE/Irrigation and Flood Control huts and in some cases offices of BDOs were under the occupation of the political workers .
The menace started after 1996 when National Conference government was in office and NC workers started occupying the government buildings.
The officers and employees of the departments, whose buildings were 'occupied' by the politicians then agitated on the issue and got the buildings vacated.
But as soon as the NC-Congress coalition government assumed office in 2009, the trend was reversed and this time in a different way. The Ministers identified the office buildings which were not in use for one or the other reason and then converted them into guest-houses for the stay of their workers and personal guests.
"The Housing Board building at Tulsibagh was vacant and the minister converted into a guest house for the convenience of his workers visiting Srinagar" an insider told Early Times on the conditions of anonymity. "We want the building to be evacuated and restored for the benefit of the employees and general public. A top official , pleading anonymity admitted that the 'political occupants' don't have permission from the government to use the buildings". |
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