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| GoMs failed to deliver: Public exchequer pinched for a naught | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 24: While over a month has passed since the termination of Mehbooba Mufti led government, but the PDP-BJP ministers who were part of several groups ( GoMs) did not come up with suggestions related to several issues that state is facing.
These groups of ministers (GoM) were constituted to come up with suggestions and ensure effective coordination between the coalition partiners.
Sources said that lakhs of rupees were spent over constitution of these groups and their meeting, but they did nothing meaningful.
Days after the forming the government, the state cabinet in April 2016 issued directives for constitution of groups of ministers on Infrastructure Development, Economic Affairs and on Human Resource and Skill Development for which the General Administration Department issued orders, accordingly.
A six-member group headed by Minister for Power Development was assigned the task of holding deliberations on the issue of infrastructural development. Minister for Public Works, Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment, Minister for Public Health Engineering and Irrigation and Flood Control and Minister of State for Transport were part of this group.
"The group held no deliberations on the issue of infrastructure development in the state," an official of the GAD, said.
"This group did not come up with suggestions despite the state lacking the infrastructural development. The government was silent because PDP-BJP were in power then. But it has come to the fore now that constitution of these groups was just a futile exercise," the official said.
A six-member group headed by Minister for Health and Medical Education was framed for holding deliberations on human resource and skill development.
The Minister for Education, Minister for Finance, Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Minister for Information Technology were members of the group.
Another group was headed by Minister for Finance, while comprising of Minister of Industries and Commerce, Minister for Agriculture Production, Minister for Rural Development Department and Minister for Tourism was assigned to look after the economic affairs.
"These groups met few times but did not do much for which they were constituted," the official said.
A group headed by Deputy Chief Minister was constituted on the issue of illegal settlement of immigrants.
Minister for Health and Medical Education, Minister for Rural Development and Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department were part of this group.
This group did not come up with suggestions despite the government is considering of deporting Rohingyas outside India.
The state government had also constituted a group of seven ministers to examine the proposal regarding accord of administrative approval for execution of work for dredging and strengthening embankments of the Wular Lake. |
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