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| NC's Nawa-e-Subha headquarter major PDD defaulter in Valley | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 2: One of the biggest private defaulters of Power Development Department (PDD) in the Valley is none other than the NC whose president is the Chief Minister and also holds the PDD portfolio under his charge.
Speaking to some media persons in Srinagar the new provincial president of the NC, Nasir Aslam Wani has said he did not know anything about the PDD arrears against the NC's Nawa-e-Subha headquarters and if true the dues would be paid shortly.
Engineers of the PDD have disclosed that the NC headquarters in Srinagar is one of the biggest defaulters of the department, but have not afforded any plausible explanation as to why they have still not snapped the electric supply line to NC's Nawa-e-Subha complex?
What is true of the NC headquarters is also true about some of the senior bureaucrats in the Valley. Recently it was discovered that Deputy Commissioner Srinagar has been paying a mere Rs. 200 per month as the electric dues for his residence in Barzulla locality of Srinagar. What right does the NC or for that matter the bureaucrats have to ask an ordinary consumer to cough up electric dues or face the consequences?
It is not a simple question about whether the NC now pays the PDD overdues or not. The real question is whether the party's boss and Chief Minister who also holds the PDD portfolio has been morally right asking people to pay PDD dues or face legal and procedural action when his party headquarters has been the biggest defaulter of the department he holds in his charge?
If charity begins at home then accountability and responsibility should also begin at home. By its conduct it appears that the NC does not believe in extending its own commitments to itself. Whatever its leaders affirm in the public are not to be enforced on the party.
If the State PDD Minister (read Chief Minister) now says it was not brought to his knowledge that the NC headquarters in Srinagar city owed Rs. Seven lakh to the PDD as arrears of electric dues that is again a bad reflection of the department's working under his control.
In every forum the State Government has been crying over the misuse of electricity by consumers. It has also been cursing electricity pilferage for most of the State's industrial woes which results from the fact that J&K has virtually no electric power to sustain a viable industrial sector in the State. What would the State Government or the major ruling party say about the default and misuse of electricity by none other than the NC itself? |
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