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| J&K's governance ranked 16th, infrastructure 15th | | State of States Report | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 22: Raising serious questions on capability, intellect and wisdom of incharge ministers; India Today group's state of states report has shown Health, Infrastructure and Agriculture sectors of Jammu and Kashmir in extremely poor state.
These three sectors have got downgraded from the positions they were on in the year 2013. This has impacted overall governance of the state, taking it from 15th position in the year 2013 to 16 in the current year 2014. J&K, which was awarded for massive improvement in Health sector in the year 2011, is now ranked 19. According to the report, J&K failed to make any significant improvement in the health sector during the last one year.
State could not increase expenditure on medical health and family welfare since the last two years, says the report. There was also no major increase in the number of registered doctors in the state. Besides, no new health scheme was either proposed or launched. Even the ongoing schemes are suffering from shortage of adequate funds. Though the state witnessed no malnutrition deaths but could not do much for improving healthcare facilities.
This resulted in state going from bad to worse in the healthcare sector and being ranked 15th from once having been rewarded for massive improvement in medicare across Jammu and Kashmir. Agriculture Ministry too has failed miserably to do anything substantial apart from transfers and postings alongwith other illegal upgradations in seniority of the officials. Ranked 6th in the year 2013, J&K is now 15th in the overall ranking of the states in the agriculture sector.
Mir, despite claiming of having contributed extensively, failed to make much of a difference in the agriculture sector of Jammu and Kashmir. His ministry's ranking in the state of states report speaks a lot about his contribution. Innovation seems to have left agriculture ministry several years ago as it failed to launch any new scheme for increasing agricultural productivity in the state and those, which are operational could not make much of a difference.
Mir would be more remembered as a minister who spent most of his energy and time in transfers and postings alongside cutting ribbons in various programmes and workshops. After Agriculture, J&K has seriously gone back in infrastructure and is now ranked 15. State government was awarded in the year 2013 for being number 1 in the development of infrastructure but within one, it is now at 15th rank in the state of states report.
This is mainly due to the inability of the state government to ensure completion of various projects started during the last 6 years. There are allegations that state government even failed to complete the projects started during the period of ex-Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and prior to him Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, who is PDP's Chief Ministerial candidate, having served the state already for three years from 2002 to 2005.
This dismal show in the three critically important sectors has resulted in J&K being downgraded from 15 to 16th position in the overall governance. State of States survey clearly points out that governance has been the biggest casualty in Jammu and Kashmir during the last six years and it is because of this, state has been ranked 16th. This ranking has put a question mark on performance of ministers associated with developing infrastructure across the state. |
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