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| Relief Commissioner fails to implement Governor's orders | | Disclosure of Security Related Expenditure | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 25: Relief Commissioner (Migrants), Jammu, has miserably failed to implement the orders issued on the Governor's direction wherein his office was asked to make disclosure of all the Security Related Expenditure (SRE) details from 2012 to 2014 on its official website. The order was issued by State Home Department on the direction of Raj Bhavan when J&K was put under Governor's rule.
Background: RTI activist Venkatesh Nayak associated with Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) had sought SRE details in Jammu & Kashmir from Union Home Ministry last year . The details revealed that more than Rs 500 cr had been spent on SRE under various heads from 2012 onwards in J&K. The money was provided to the Relief Commissioner (migrants), J&K police, General Administration Department (GAD) , Revenue Department , Divisional Commissioners of Jammu/Srinagar under various heads like relief for Kashmiri migrants including cash assistance, free ration, construction of two room tenements , ex gratia relief , cash payment in lieu of appointment in government service and return and rehabilitation of migrants.
As huge money was pumped into J&K with no accountability, Venkatesh sought the intervention of Governor N N Vohra and wrote to him on 19/1/2015. He urged upon the Governor to direct all the departments in J&K who are associated with disbursing SRE funds to make the details of beneficiaries proactively available as mandated under section 4 (1) (b) of J&K RTI Act 2009. Taking cognizance of Venkatesh's complaint, the Raj Bhavan directed Principal Secretary (Home) to make sure the proactive disclosure of SRE is made by all the departments.
Home department's communication: Vide letter No Home /12 / Acctts/2015/505 dated: 2/2/2015 , the Director Finance Home department informed Venkatesh that all the heads of the departments in J&K have been asked to share the SRE details. The letter reads as " All the heads of the departments have been requested to furnish the information regarding the details of beneficiaries under SRE funds for the last three years to you and also in future upload such details on departmental website". Another letter No: Home /12/Acctts/2015 dated 2/2/2015 from Director Finance Home Department to DG Police reads as : "I am directed to forward herewith a copy of communication GS-120(G) API/15/497 dated 24.1.2015 along with enclosures , addressed to the Principal Secretary to Government, Home Department from the Principal Secretary to Governor, J&K regarding above captioned subject (proactive disclosure of information about beneficiaries under SRE Police and R&R schemes), and request to provide the from last 3 years to the applicant besides upload the same on departmental website"
J&K Police acted on this order only after more than four months and very recently the details have been uploaded on JKP's official website. While as other departments especially the Relief Commissioner's office continues to violate the orders of the Governor. "More than Rs 70 Crores was provided to Relief Commissioner (Migrants ) in 2014 alone but the details of the beneficiaries is still not known to people as the information is not proactively available on the official website of the said organization and this is gross violation not only the orders of the Governor of J&K but also the open violation of section 4 (1) (b) of J&K RTI Act 2009 " said RTI activist Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat. |
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