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| 'Pay payment to contractors' PDP tells Government | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Jan 8 : Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir today demanded immediate payment to the contractors and suppliers who had remained unpaid for months. The contractors, self help groups and suppliers had not been paid in time, chief spokesperson of the PDP Naeem Akhtar said in a statement here. It was a matter of grave concern that the government withheld genuine payments even as it receives funds for every work that is taken up, he said. Mr Akhtar said a representative body of government contractors had claimed that the government owed them at least Rs 1,000 crore in Kashmir valley alone which gave an idea about the gravity of problem. Though it was a common knowledge that payments were generally withheld for extorting money from the executors of any government work the fact that there was no response from the government to complaints of the contractors made it clear that the top leadership too was a beneficiary of the brazen loot, he claimed. Mr Akhtar alleged that the government was patronising a small group of people especially in Srinagar who worked as 'benami' proxies and partners of some ruling politicians and they alone received payments in time or even in advance in some cases. Rest of the entrepreneurs who generally worked with small capital holdings to make two ends meet are left high and dry, he said and pointed out that such small and petty contractors were on the verge of bankruptcy as their bank interest was mounting while the government watched either with helplessness or complicity. 'For its favourites the government even diverted funds, dispensed with bidding and violated all norms,' he said. |
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