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| Cong-NC Govt unlikely to establish new administrative units? | | Vote-bank exercise | | Rustam
JAMMU, Feb 27: The NC-Congress coalition Government is claiming on a daily basis that "new administrative units will give new impetus to development and ease the administrative problems of people living in far-flung areas. The NC is even going to the extent of asserting that carving out of new community development blocks, in particular, will revolutionize the rural landscape with fund flow increasing manifold and that almost every area has been covered under historic initiative and those nurturing the grouse of neglect will get an opportunity to put forth their case before the new panel which is being constituted soon and to submit report in stipulated time frame. These claims appear quite untenable as the time it the disposal of the Government is rather limited and the State exchequer is empty.
It is important to note that the implementation of CSC recommendations on new administrative units would have financial implications of Rs 1510.22 crores, including Rs 255.51 crores as revenue (recurring per annum) expenditure and Rs 1254.71 crores as capital (non-recurring) expenditure. The sub divisions (46) would entail an expenditure of Rs 143.52 crores, tehsils (135) Rs 507.60 crores, CD blocks (177) Rs 500.91 crores and niabats (301) Rs 358.19 crores. The new units would require 10,521 staff members, including 358 gazetted officers and 10,163 non gazetted officials.
Believe it or not, but it is fact that 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 the new administrative units," the Finance Ministry has told the Assembly. On February 13, when Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather presented the budget for 201402015, 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 and Development Department (P&DD) and Finance Department," he told reporters after presenting the budget. All this should clear all cobwebs of confusion and establish that the people of the state are unlikely to get new administrative units in the near future. But more than that, the State Government is also thinking in terms of appointing another committee to look into the demands of the left out areas. |
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