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| Budget – a jugglery of figures: Chaman | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 16
Terming the budget of the State as jugglery of figures, the former Union Minister and a Senior leader of BJP, Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta said that even cursory glance reveal the claims of progress and prosperity are contradictory and highly confusing.
Commenting upon the budget speech of the Finance Minister, as delivered in the State Assembly, Prof. Gupta observed that galloping expenditure of the State well indicate ever growing dependence of the state at the Centre. Over 85 per cent expenditure during the next fiscal year is to be met from the transactions from the Centre.
Out of the total spendings proposed for the next of Rs. 18443 crores, the Revenue Receipts from the Own Resources of the State have been estimated just at Rs. 3806 crores. But the most disturbing features of the State economy are the mounting liabilities which as per official figures have already crossed over Rs. 18700 crores.
He further said that while the State is not in a position to pay even the salaries of its staff from its Own Revenue, there are intriguing slogans for Autonomy and self Rule even with the suggestions of having own currency.
Quoting from the economic survey of the state as was presented in the State Assembly yesterday, Prof. Gupta said that the most funny thing was that the percentage of the people living below the poverty line have been put at have 5.49 per cent but in the same Survey Report it has been given that the state is getting BPL Rations for 7.36 Lakh families which form 40.22 per cent whereas the national average of the BPL is less than 26 per cent.
What can be more ridiculous that on one hand three years ago the Deputy Chief Minister of the State, Muzaffar Hussain Baig, had received the first prize from the then vice-President of India Bhairon Singh Sheikhawat on basis of their own Survey carried by the India Today Publications wherein the state had put the people living Below the Poverty Line just at 3.48 per cent for eradicating the poverty from Jammu and Kashmir but on the other hand the State Government is still getting BPL rations and other assistance in the social sector to the highest limit in the country to that of about 40 per cent, he questioned.
The BJP leader observed that it was a matter of concern while there is unchecked expenditure of the large sized ministry and the men given the status of a minister under political considerations, the government is having no policy to tackle the growing problem of unemployment.
He pointed out that the BJP ruled states like that of Gujrat with four times population of the State having 182 Assembly Seats led by Narinder Modi is just having a ministry of 18 ministers and in the adjoining Himachal there is a ministry of just ten members but in Jammu and Kashmir strange policies are being opted ignoring the sad economic situation of the state which is having 25 ministers. In the budget proposals no effort has been made to check the wasteful expenditure of the money being received from the poor Indian exchequer.
Prof. Gupta asserted that much of the problems in Jammu and Kashmir are due to so-called Special Status of this state which has given birth to communalism, fundamentalism, terror and regional disparities, and anarchy. |
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