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| NC-Cong coalition Govt stands exposed | | Rs 5 crore to create 659 ad | | Rustam
JAMMU, Feb 20: Is the NC-Congress coalition interested in creating the recommended 659 new administrative units in Jammu and Kashmir? If the statement made by the Finance Ministry in response to a cut-motion moved by a legislator during the discussion on the grants for the department day before yesterday is any indication, then it can be said that the State Government might not implement its February 1, 2014 decision on new administrative units.
According to the statement, the State Government has kept an "adhoc" provision of a paltry Rs five crore in the budget for the next year for the establishment of 659 new administrative units in Jammu and Kashmir. "The Finance Department has kept an adhoc budgetary provision of Rs three crore for Revenue Department and Rs two crore for Rural Development Department under the non-plan for the next fiscal for establishment of the new administrative units," the Finance Ministry's reply said.
Earlier, on February 13, when Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather presented the budget for 2014-2015, he had candidly admitted that he did not make any specific provision in the budget for the newly recommended administrative units. "We have kept an adhoc provision in the budget for the units because the proposal is still being looked into by Planning & Development Department (P&DD) and Finance Department," he told reporters after presenting the budget. On Sunday, PDP ideologue and former Deputy Chief Minister in the Congress-led coalition Government Muzaffar Hussain Baig had stated that the "State Government would face the Planning Commission of India's wrath for violating the laid down norms for carving out the units when it approaches the Commission next fiscal to seek developmental funds for these units" and that the "Government's announcement to create new administrative was 'only a proposal' and no administrative order has been issued to implement it". Significantly, none in the State Government has responded to the PDP leader's assertions.
It is important to note that the State Government requires no less than Rs 1500 crore for the establishment of the newly recommended administrative units. It is also required to create nearly 10,000 posts of all categories, including gazetted and non-gazetted, to make the recommended units functional. How could it create these posts when 80,000 posts are already lying vacant in various Government departments? The fact of the matter is that the NC-Congress coalition has only fooled the people of the State. How else should one interpret the State Government's ridiculous decision to keep an "adhoc" provision of a paltry Rs five crore in the budget for the next years for the establishment of 659 new administrative units in Jammu and Kashmir? |
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