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| Centrally sponsored schemes fail to benefit poor in North Kashmir | | | Mudasir Tariq
Early Times Report
BARAMULLA, Feb 4: While centrally sponsored schemes like Indira Awaas Yojna (IAY) and National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) were aimed to benefit rural poor, unjustified execution of these schemes in North Kashmir has deprived the deserving to yield the benefits.
Locals of Pattan and its adjacent areas told Early Times that state government has failed to implement these schemes properly. The locals alleged that deserving people were not getting benefits out of these schemes.
While the scheme of IAY is aimed at helping construction and up gradation of dwelling units of members of scheduled castes, weak and underprivileged, schedule tribes, freed bonded laborers and other BPL people, locals held that Rural Development department along with Panchs and Sarpanchs were benefiting non-deserving people from the scheme.
"The scheme is not executed genuinely as these Panchs and Sarpanchs along with the officials of Rural Development department provide benefits to their own kith's and kins while the deserving people are made to suffer," said Wali Mohammad, a local at Pattan.
Wali said that these Panchs and Sarpanchs in the area have created a fear psychosis and nobody speaks against them and they have built houses of their own relatives from IAY scheme while as the poor are at the receiving end.
Meanwhile, the Rural Development department officials have clandestinely revealed their poor stand on the issue.
The officials of the department said they are compelled to approve schemes for the people sanctioned by local Panchs and Sarpanchs.
"Lots of people come here and apply for IAY funds, but the response of the officials is usually filled with nasal disdain. They cannot be blamed for that as these local leaders make their demands done as a result of which poor are suffering," said an official of the Rural Development Department, Pattan wishing not to be named.
Sources in the department held that this is not the only case. The situation is even worse in other blocks of the district too where the schemes have failed to benefit the deserving people. The locals who work with various projects of NREGA also echoed the same views and held that after working for a year, their payments are delayed and many times paid in half amounts.
The locals alleged that the contractors with NREGA were minting money from the scheme and also accused them of making fake registration. "On fake registration they benefit their own people who have never worked on the project, this is share injustice and needs to be highlighted," said Ghulam Mohammad Chopan, a NREGA labourer. |
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