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| WG to have meetings before finalizing recommendations | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | September 5 :The Working Group on Centre-State relations, constituted by the Prime Minister, will meet again before submitting its recommendations to the Government.
“We also favour more deliberations in the meeting of the Working Group before it drafts its recommendations,” said Panthers Party leader, Harsh Dev Singh, soon after arriving from Delhi today. He said that since the number of parties that were present in the first meeting of the Working Group held in Delhi, two days back, was large it was necessary for the Chairman of the Group to listen to views and opinions of all parties on vital issues.
Harsh Dev Singh said that no date for the next meeting has been fixed.He said the Prime Minister had constituted five Working Groups and four have already submitted their recommendations but the Group on centre-state relations was the most important committee constituted by the Prime Minister.He explained that those from the Jammu region had caused a flutter in the meeting when “we dished out facts and figures to highlight the level of discrimination people of the region had faced during the last 60 years.”
He said that as a result of Kashmir centric leadership and bureaucracy the unemployment percentage of educated youth in the Jammu region had touched 69 against 29 per cent in the Kashmir valley.He said he apprised the Working Group members about the raw deal the Jammu region received by the successive state Governments in the allotment of funds in various sectors,including health and Public Works.He said people in the Jammu region were deprived of funds as they needs were ignored.
Regarding functioning of institutions of democracy he said he had told the meeting that these institutions had been “raped” by the ruling coalition Government and it was unprecedented that a member of the Assembly was suspended from the rest of the session because his presence in the House would have led to the arrest of some ministers who had indulged in contempt of the House by not fulfilling their assurances made on the floor of the House.
Harsh Dev Singh said that atleast three more sitting of the Working Group were called for because the list of inter-regional and itra-regional disparities besides the sensitive issue of state-centre relations needed a detailed discussion so that in its recommendations these imbalances and wrongs were corrected.
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