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| DDB meetings reduced to tea, scone parties: Harsh | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 11: National Panthers Party MLA Harsh Dev Singh has lambasted the state government for allegedly making the District Development Boards (DDBs) redundant by blatantly disregarding and dishonoring their decisions and resolutions passed in such meetings. According to press release, Singh said that DDBs were conceptualized in the past with the objective of ensuring holistic and balanced development of various districts of the state by bringing all government departments on a common platform with active association of elected representatives of people. Regretting the highly apathetic and negligent approach of the authorities concerned, Harsh Dev Singh pointed out the DDBs had become mere rituals and tea and scone parties with the government showing the least concern for the decisions of such Boards. He said that the Action Taken Reports (ATRs) of the past four years of DDB decisions indicated that more than 80% of the decisions of such Boards had still remained un-implemented. He pointed out that the said decisions pertained to major departments and related to provision of basic essential services to the people. He said all such decisions relating to provision of portable drinking water, drilling of hand pumps in chronically water deficient areas, provision of health care facilities, creation of new health centers, upgradation of schools, provision of accommodation in schools, deployment of teaching staff in staff deficient schools, power crisis in affected areas besides others had gone unheeded and un-addressed for the last several years despite categoric resolutions of said boards.
He said that the issue of persistent dishonor of DDB decisions was raked up in successive sessions in Assembly besides other forums but all entreaties and calls of the legislators had fallen flat with no positive response emanating from the govt. side.
Harsh Dev Singh regretted the surrender of Rs. 2100 crore during the previous financial year which was declined by the planning commission of India due to utter negligence of the state govt in utilization of available funds.
He further deplored that during the current financial year also the govt. had announced a cut of 25% in district and State Sector plans thereby giving a severe blow to the developmental process. |
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