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| Back to square one: SAC recommendations eat dust | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Dec 5
The Jammu and Kashmir government, which assured accountability and transparency in government sector, is rendering a cold shoulder to the recommendations of State Accountability Commission making it a canine-less tiger.
Despite dearth of staff both technical and administrative, the State Accountability Commission (SAC) has made ten recommendations to government for implementation of its decision upto ending July 2007 but none has been implemented so far.
The institution 'State Accountability Commission' was established in December 2002 to inquire into grievances and allegations against public functionaries with an intention of making them responsible and accountable towards their duties, but government itself made the Commission toothless by not implementing its recommendations..
According to sources a total number of 1562 complaints were registered with the commission at it's both the wings - Srinagar and Jammu - from September 2005 to July 2007, out of which 183 complaints were dismissed on merits. Of the dismissed complaints 111 were registered at Srinagar wing, sources added.
The Commission also dismissed 852 complaints on the basis of defaults. 614 of such complaints were registered in Jammu.
Sources in SAC told News Agency of Kashmir, that in 163 complaints including 23 of SAC's Srinagar wing the grievances were settled by the intervention of the commission, while in 10 cases recommendations were made to the government for further course of action. "At present only 315 complaints were pending for final disposal before the commission", sources added.
SAC has furnished its recommendation in almost ten cases and ironically none has been implemented by the government. Four recommendations were made from Srinagar wing, while six recommendations were made in Jammu, they added.
"Instead of taking action against the officials government further facilitates them time for getting the recommendations stayed from the Hon'ble high court", sources quoting a SAC official told NAK adding the SAC recommendation were not a final order but an intimation to government about the wrong done by its official.
The government even did not bother to shift the corrupt officials from the posts where they have allegedly done wrongs, it (government) promoted them and awarded them with prize postings, sources added.
The officers whose dismissal has been recommended by the SAC - after they were found guilty - are being shielded by the bureaucrats and ministers who are hell bent to turn the commission into a meaningless institution.
Irony of the cases is that those who made laws are now defending the violators of these laws in the courts.
"What one can expect from common masses when a sitting minister in the state government prefers to get stay to the recommendations submitted against him instead of facing it," a social worker told NAK adding that when a minister cannot face SAC how come his bureaucrats could be sacked.
"Government has to explain on which side they are, with the corrupt or with those against corruption", a political leader questioned and said that nothing is going to change unless the corrupt people are not practically taken to task.
"It is only fair of social exposure that keeps system in check", Rajeev Gorkha, a practicing lawyer in state HC says, adding laws have been enough sufficient to effectively check with the conduct of a greedy, dishonest or criminal person but it is unfortunately the implementation of law is itself in the hand of corrupts. |
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