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| Fix responsibility for creation of gargantuan liabilities in R&B: Harsh | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 5 : Supporting the cause of agitating contractors seeking the early clearance of their pending claims and bills, Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and former Minister has flayed the govt. for the fiscal mess and financial crunch prevailing in the State. He said that while on the one hand salaries and wages of govt. employees remained unpaid for months, the contractors registered for execution of public works on the other hand were deprived of their work done claims and bills for periods ranging from 2-3 years. Only two days back, the ReT teachers were brutally lathi charged by the police merely for the reason that they were seeking the release of their pending wages. He was addressing a press conference in Jammu today.
Urging upon the govt. to clear the unpaid claims of the contractors, Singh said that the govt's apathy in this regard had not only deprived the contractors of their hard earned payments but caused immense hardships to the labourers. He said that labour class which was dependent for its sustenance upon daily earnings had been forced to starvation as the payments of the contractors were delayed for years by the govt. Not only that several contractors had reached a stage of bankruptcy as their payments were withheld by the govt. for years but interest on loans/finances availed by them from banks and financial institutions kept multiplying.
Expressing his dismay over the creation of huge unprecedented liabilities during the last three years in PW(R&B) Deptt which totaled 1024.45 crores, Singh urged upon the govt. to fix responsibilities for the highly irregular practice committed in violation of the of the financial accounting system and laws. He said that creation of liabilities is barred not only under the financial code but also strictly forbidden by the Finance Deptt through dozens of circulars and guidelines issued from time to time with strict warnings to make those authorizing such expenditure personally liable for the same.
While seeking a probe into the said gamut of huge expenditure incurred in an un-authorized manner at the behest of Ministers and other political persons, Singh said that the contractors, their mates and labourers can't be deprived of their claims in view of physical work having been executed by them on the ground. |
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