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| Balwant Thakur sacked from ICCR, also in line of fire of SNA | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 7: For years he ran the cultural scene of the state like his fiefdom and rode high because of undue favours showered on him by the bureaucracy. But finally, Balwant Thakur has been shown the door by Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi.
Already sacked as Secretary, J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages in 2003 by the then Mufti Mohammad Sayeed government for his alleged corrupt practices in the name of workshops, Thakur had been enjoying the directorial post of ICCR for a long time.
"Not a single child excelled in any field, the discourses which he often gives to assembly of parents to help their child grow confidant to strike high positions through KAS, IAS and allied exams," said a hurt parent of a child of Natrang workshop.
At ICCR, since its inception in 2012, Thakur took over the total control and never let a point lose for the artists of the state to benefit from the organization, except flourishing his own Natrang, protecting his newly inducted daughter in the field and a chosen few who work in return of heavy favours for him.
An ICCR official under anonymity admitted that after receiving a large number of unhealthy feedbacks about his manipulative conduct in ICCR, he was put in the line of fire.
It is in place to mention that since inception of ICCR in Jammu, people connected with art and culture had never been taken in loop and no eminent personality in music, dance and drama given a foreign platform for excelling the diverse culture of the state.
People demand that though even the employees in ICCR were contractually employed in the organization were taken from Thakur's Natrang group and hence a state government enquiry be constituted to get the factual records of the ICCR.
Now since Thakur enjoys the position by default/ patronage of state bureaucracy as a member of committee of Central Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA) and decides the fate of the artists of Jammu and Kashmir region, the past records shows that besides getting astronomical amount running in lacs for Natrang's programmes, he has been offering peanuts to the genuine theater groups except to those who have been awarded by SNA on his recommendation and are second fiddle to his Natrang in sharing the booty of SNA.
It is high time for state/central government to get his records straight and wake up from the slumber. |
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