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| Parliamentary elections induce serious Governance deficit across J&K | | | Shakeel A Khan
SRINAGAR, May 4: The people across Jammu and Kashmir have been fraught with serious deficit of governance as the state government seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth in the garb of parliamentary elections and the Model Code of Conduct.
As the leaders of National Conference and Congress are busy in their last ditch efforts to win Lok Sabha seats from the valley, the governance has reached its lowest ebb. None of the ministers are attending to the genuine problems of people with masses continuing to suffer.
Shabir Ahmad, a resident of Gotapora-Budgam said one fails to understand as to who is looking after the portfolios these days because none of the coalition leaders has got time to address the grievances of the people. Shabir says that as if the leaders are counting their last days and are busy in the spiritual purification.
People said that officials of every department, from Health to Revenue, seem to be in no mood to serve the people as they don't consider themselves accountable these days because the Ministers are busy in the campaigning for the election. They said the class IV employees are looking after the departments.
"I frequented the Revenue department many times during the last two months to settle a long pending issue. But my efforts proved to be in vain as I couldn't the official concerned with my case," said Ghulam Ahmad from Narbal. He said the staff told him that there is no fun in making rounds to the office as the department is busy in election preparations. Another local Ghulam Nabi said that the situation is same with the other departments also and no service is being provided to people on the pretext of the elections. He said the employees have taken people for granted and one can see the employees, including the medicos, arriving and leaving their offices according to their own will.
"Yesterday I visited a government hospital of the valley for the check up. I was suffering from acute pain. The doctor arrived two hours after the scheduled time. Who will make this doctor accountable," asked Ghulam Mohammad Khan, a resident of Khag. He went on saying that people in power will prefer campaigning for elections over the lives of the people. |
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