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| New Delhi mulls major crackdown on corruption in J&K | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 10: With the people being fed up of over seventy years of corruption in Jammu and Kashmir, New Delhi is planning a major crackdown to end the menace in the Union Territory.
Sources said both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah want to bring in good governance through transparency in running the administration in Jammu and Kashmir and thus a crackdown on corruption was being strategized.
Sources said a central investigation agency has already started preliminary inquiry into working of at least two government departments in Jammu and Kashmir, while an even bigger raids are on the cards.
Sources said the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has been receiving “persistent” inputs about “years of corruption” and that now the matter was being seriously discussed to deliver good governance to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources said the matter was recently discussed threadbare in New Delhi with Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha who is rated among the most honest politicians in the country.
Sources said Sinha has also received inputs that fighting corruption has remained a challenge in Jammu and Kashmir and thus he wants to prioritize “war against corruption.”
Sources said apart from New Delhi and Sinha, minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr Jitendra Singh, who hails from Jammu, is in the know about the plan for major crackdown on corruption.
Sources said New Delhi is even monitoring the role of local investigation agencies in J&K in fighting corruption adding that “each and every action is being thoroughly scrutinized.”
A source in New Delhi said the sole aim and objective of the proposed crackdown on corruption is to deliver good governance in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources said some of the national investigation agencies would soon be given free hand to probe any person against whom complaints of corruption surface.
It is pertinent to mention that J&K has long been seen as a victim of corruption mainly at the hands of dynasts who ruled the then state for most part of the time in the last seventy years.
“But for the dream of Naya Kashmir to realize fight against corruption is among the priorities,” said a source close to the corridors of power in New Delhi.
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