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| Cabinet Sub Committee visits cost 'dearer' to Govt... | | Huge amount spent on helicopters, TA, DA | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 17: As the Omar Abdullah led coalition Government is trying to tone down controversies that erupted on the creation of new administrative units across the state, eye brows are being raised over huge expenditure that has been incurred on the marathon visit of the members of Cabinet Sub Committee to various districts, an exercise that spread over a week's time. Critics are only labelling the exercise as wasteful, both in terms of money as well as time in which not only Ministers remained engaged but also their staff besides a battery of bureaucrats. An expenditure of over Rs two crores is learnt to have been spent on the visit of CSC members and on meetings they held at various places.
Reliable sources in the Civil Secretariat said that while figures are being worked out after culmination of the visit of Cabinet Sub Committee members to various districts, it only made Government pay through nose on this exercise which has proved nothing but a wasteful and meaningless exercise . Sources said huge amount of money has been spent alone on the use of helicopter to some far off places by the members of the CSC besides on travel by road to a number of places on the vehicles of Ministers as also on their staff entourage. While the bills of the TA and DA incurred on the Ministers and staff have 'heaped up' with the clearing authorities, officials at the helm are wondering at the massive amount spent on organising meetings at district headquarters and other places the members visited. On an average an amount of not less than Rs 10 lakhs must have been spent by the CSC on its visit per day to various places, more so when it flied to some places by helicopter, sources said adding that the figures when worked out finally may show even more than this amount having been spent for places.
Sources also said that many within the Government are themselves castigating that a huge amount has been incurred at a time when other productive fronts and sectors are struggling to get funds as the Government delays that on the pretext of financial crunch in the state. What is making the critics more sarcastic in attacking the Government over this wasteful expenditure is the fact which many in the Government too realize and even have started revealing it openly that in the first place the setting up of the Cabinet Sub Committee over this issue was not required at all and the huge expenditure spent afresh on its visits was uncalled for and an avoidable exercise in the wake of the fact that it will furnish nothing new or beyond what Blowria Committee and Ganai Committee has already submitted. |
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