| As advisors demit offices, pleas in their offices gather dust | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 10: The pleas people had submitted in the offices of advisors to past governor of Jammu and Kashmir are gathering dust as there is no confirmation about whether the four government appointed advisors will join offices anytime soon.
Prior to the creation of union territory, past Jammu and Kashmir governor had fur advisors who were heading various departments in the erstwhile state. They include Vijay Kumar, Khurshid A Ganai, K Skadndan, Kewal Kumar Sharma and Farooq Ahmad Khan.
Of these five Advisors of the Governor, three were locals from Jammu and Kashmir and two from outside the State. Khurshid Ganai, Kewal Krishan Sharma and farooq Khan belonged to Jammu and Kashmir while Vijay Kumar and Skandan Krishnan were from outside.
Vijay Kumar was assigned the charge of home, forest, ecology and environment, health and medical education, youth services and sports, hospitality and protocol, civil aviation, estates and information departments.
Farooq Khan was given charge of School Education, Technical Education, Haj & Auqaf, Social Welfare, Tribal Affairs and Culture, all six which were presently held by Khurshid Ganai.
Khan was also allocated Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Agriculture and Horticulture, which were with K Skandan.
Khurshid Ganai was assigned charge of Planning Development and Monitoring Department. Also he was given Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, ARI & Trainings, Cooperative, Floriculture, Tourism, Labour and Employment and Higher Education.
Advisor Kewal Sharma was holding the charge of Public Works (R&B), PHE, irrigation and Flood Control, Power Development Department, Finance, Housing and Urban Development and Science and Technology.
Furthermore, K Skandan was Incharge of the Departments including Information Technology, Industries & Commerce, Animal/Sheep Husbandry, Ladakh Affairs, Revenue, Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction, Transport and Law, Justice & Parliamentary Affairs.
However, with the creation of union territory, the post of the state governor got dissolved and Lt Governor was appointed for the newly created UT.
What is causing hardships to the people is the uncertainty hovering around about whether the five advisors will continue to remain in office or not. The pleas which were submitted in the offices of these advisors are in limbo with no address and no conclusion. "There is nothing as such communicated about whether these advisors will remain in the office or not. So far, all the pleas which were pending in these offices are there. There has been no decision taken over where these applications should be sent. Anything concrete will be decided once the governs decides over etc fate of the earlier advisors and whether it intends to continue the services of the past five advisors to the governor," says a senior official working in civil secretariat.
An applicant hailing from central Kashmir told Early Times that he had sought one of the advisor's attention over the violation done in promotion rules in R&B department and had submitted all the requisite documents for further action from his end. "However, I have no idea where the plea is gone. At the time of submission of the plea , I was given a receipt number. I don't know where to go with that now," he lamented. |
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