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| Authorities taking problems of elected Panchayat members casually: AJKPC | | |  Early Times Report
Katra, Dec 7: Intensifying its campaign in support of their genuine demands, elected Sarpanches and Panches held massive protest at Jammu and lambasted authorities for taking their issues casually. While as on-going hunger strike of Panchayat under the leadership of AJKPC state president Anil Sharma and Jatinder Singh against the non-payment of Rs 1,000-crore MGNREGA liabilities entered the fifty day, panches and sarpanches of Samba district held demonstration at Jammu in support of their demands. Shouting slogans against authorities for taking problems of rural people casually, Panchayat members regretted that tall claims of the government to strengthen Panchayati Raj System in J&K were just an eye-wash because those at the helm of the affairs were not interested to decentralize powers. "We have launched a decisive battle this time. We will take our fight to the logical conclusion", Ram Swaroop Sharma, Sarpanch said and vowed that this agitation would be intensified in the days to come with the involvement of villagers also. He said that all programmes and policies formulated by the government for the empowerment of Panchayats were confined only on papers. |
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