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| 18 hours a day, all work and no play | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 30: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy –so says the dictionary of cultural literacy underlining the difficulties in making a fair balance between work and other activities of life.
For Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad it is work, work and all work –no other activity. This is how a spokesman of the government has today featured the Chief Minister. Interestingly, the spokesman said that the officers assisting Azad in his work get tired, the media covering him gets exhausted but the Chief Minister does not retire. It, however, could not be understood as how Chief Minister's efforts are translated into reality when the executants get tired ahead of him.
Drawing up one day schedule of the Chief Minister as how the life moved on Thursday, the spokesman said that Azad met several dozen deputations before reaching his civil secretariat office at 9:30 where he did some files before taking meetings of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Human Rights and Wadhwa Committee on Refugees of PoK and West Pakistan. Then, along with senior officers including his Principal Secretary, Anil Goswami, he drove to Nagrota and Jagti in the outskirts of the winter capital to inspect the pace of work on Satellite Township being developed for Kashmiri migrants. After a thorough inspection during which he discussed even the minutest details of the massive project going apace, he proceeded to Udhampur where he met a couple of thousand people in groups who had come from the four corners of the district to acquaint the Chief Minister about their development needs.
The Tara Niwas presented a festive look as groups of people from all blocks of the district had descended on the lawns of once the royal mansion to be face to face with their leader. The marathon public darbar started at 1 P.M. and culminated only at midnight. Even as the officials present on the occasion felt tired and the camera person of an international news agency doing a profile of the Chief Minister looked exhausted, Azad did not show any sign of fatigue. He heard each of the 64 deputations with rapt attention, interacting with almost every individual, enquiring about issues and problems confronting their villages and asking about development schemes going on in their areas.
The innovative method of feedback collection by Azad on development works and identifying deficiencies through interaction with people on the ground has earned him wide appreciation. The deputations had come from Duddu, Ramnagar, Panchari, Chenani, Ghordi, Majalta and Udhampur and villages as distant from each other as Laati in Duddu and Bhamag in Panchari and Khoon in Majalta and Tikri in Udhampur blocks. They represented a cross-section of society including farmers, lawyers, students, journalists, unemployed youth, women, aged and the young, and apprised the Chief Minister about the development scenario in the respective villages and sought his intervention in sanctioning more schemes for improving basic amenities.
The deputations, besides highlighting problems of their respective areas, also gave an appreciation of the infrastructure development schemes being undertaken by the government. The Chief Minister heard them with patience and composure, at times himself taking notes and at other passing on instructions to the district administration. While everybody felt that the government had taken up massive infrastructure development mission across the State and that each village was benefited, the deputations did not show any reluctance in asking for more. Azad seemed too willing to listen to them. |
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