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BJP-PDP legalized corruption in state: Harsh
7/26/2019 11:27:05 PM
Early Times Report

RAMNAGAR, July 26: Accusing erstwhile BJP-PDP regime of utter failure in ensuring the implementation of even a single commitment made in the Agenda of Alliance (AOA) during its 3½ years rule, Harsh Dev Singh JKNPP Chairman and Former Minister said that it's only achievement was legalizing corruption in the state.
He said that the aborted rule witnessed a deep rooted culture of patronized corruption in the state with none to take cognizance of the public cries and frequent reports in the media of wanton irregularities and bungling in the working of the govt. He said that most alarming aspect was not the money exchanging hands in the unwholesome bargains but the open defiance of norms and procedures, fearlessness and audacity displayed by corrupt elements in executing such illegal bargains. Braving bad weather and torrential rains, he was addressing huge public meetings in Bhatyari and Kaghote villages of Ramnagar constituency today.
Peeved over the negligible impact of various central schemes particularly MG-NREGA, IAY, DPAP, IWMP and TSP in the remote villages, Singh regretted large scale pilferages and plunder of funds provided under the said schemes in the said villages. He lamented that there was hardly any tangible impact of the aforesaid schemes on the ground with the public complaints regarding swindling of funds by corrupt officials having fallen on deaf ears.
He regretted non initiation of action against corrupt officials whose frauds had been established but were being sheltered due to patronage of political bigwigs and Departmental Officers who were said to be in league in the fishy bargains. Calling for a probe into the transfer Industry which flourished in the recent past in the Deptts of Education, Health, Forest, Power, PHE and Rural Development, Singh called for the constitution of SIT to unearth the alleged extraneous considerations and violations of prescribed norms.
He said premature transfers running into hundreds in the said Deptts in violation of Transfer policy and stipulated norms had beaten all previous records of whimsical transfers and needed due cognizance of the Governor. Maintaining further that not only was the transfer Industry flourishing in the State, but the funds meant for development schemes were being plundered and looted by corrupt politicians in league with vested interests and unscrupulous govt. functionaries.
Singh expressed grave concern over the open loot of funds in Ramnagar by unscrupulous officers in R&B, PHE, RDD, MGNREGA and PMGSY in collusion with corrupt politicians in the name of repairs, restoration and maintenance without any tangible work executed on the ground. He said that allotment of contracts without tenders and departmental approvals for works costing crores, had blown the lid off the govt's tall claims of "good governance" and "corruption free dispensation". He said that with huge expenditure being shown to have been incurred on papers, the corresponding delivery on the ground was no where discernible.
Likewise, he alleged misappropriation and open loot of funds under Bad pocket initiative, 14th Finance Commission Awards SC/ST grants CDF and other maintenance grants by a corrupt politician-officer nexus during the past 4 years.
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