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| JK House New Delhi hosts VIPs, Commoners suffer | | |
Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 23: The JK House in New Delhi is becoming a dominion of former ministers and their kith and kin including the legislators with the common masses being shown the door.
Early Times received reports from scores of aggrieved JK citizens accusing the JK House authorities of ignoring them and turning the House as the VIP centre. Reports informed that in a bid to bite the chilling cold, the bureaucrats, former ministers along with their respective families are camping in New Delhi at the government expenses with common people left in lurch.
Shugufta, 54, was one of the state employees who had applied for the accommodation at JK House New Delhi for the period of three days with the purpose of the medical checkup. She applied through the Hospitality and Protocol Department here but once reaching New Delhi at 7 in the evening on February 12, she was refused any shelter with the officials there stating that the rooms are already occupied. "We were left under the open sky in the midst of the dark night. It was my son who later moved from pillar to post in Delhi- finally getting a room at a much higher cost. I was there to undergo medical checkup," says Shugufta.
She is not alone to whom such an ill treatment was accorded by the JK House officials. Scores of people from state told this newspaper that the JK House authorities are giving preference to the families of the former ministers while depriving any accommodation to people having a non-VIP status. "It is nepotism and favouritism which is ruling the roost there. Common people like us are given no assistance at all," says one of the state employees who had gone to New Delhi in the recent past for the official purpose.
Located in Chankya Puri, New Delhi, the JK House has three Blocks, A B and C comprising of 57 rooms, four VIP suits and 38 residential quarters. The Jammu and Kashmir state has over a hundred Kanals of land at Raja Ji Marg which has been leased out to Military Engineering Wing, the Ministry of Defence-Government of India. Only one acre of land with old structures thereon is in the possession of the State Government. This premises has 56 quarters in which the staff of the Resident Commission and other State Government offices is housed, informs the official website of the Hospitality and Protocol Department.
It may be recalled that on March 22, 2013 Amrit Malhotra Legislative Council chairman had ordered for constituting a House Committee to review the functioning of Jammu and Kashmir Guest Houses. The order had come, after a Congress member pointed out to accommodation crisis for people of Jammu and Kashmir outside the state. Members cutting across the party lines had voiced concern over the present system in J&K Houses, particularly in JK House Chankaypuri New-Delhi. So far, no action has been taken by the state authorities over the issue with the people continue to suffer.
Meanwhile, the repeated attempts to contact the concerned authorities at the JK House New Delhi were not established. |
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