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| Irony! No salary for employees, but babus spend millions on functions | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 9: Even as thousands of government employees and daily wagers are complaining about nor getting their wages in time due to “paucity of funds,” bureaucrats in Jammu and Kashmir are “spending lavishly on the functions.”
From holding seminars to workshops to festivals, many of the government departments are spending “huge public money” on such activities including sporting events.
Sources said every such event costs millions including the money spend on food like Wazwan and boarding and lodging of the invitees.
“Event management companies are also making big money and some shady deals in the process cannot be ruled out,” said an official.
Ironically such events are being held when the government employees have been complaining of alleged starvation due to delay in release of their wages.
As per the official sources, the problem is more so for daily wagers and contractual, who for the last around three years frequently are complaining about “injustice over release of wages.”
Sources said the daily wagers working in various the departments are complaining that they haven’t received their salaries for months together. “We and our families are at the verge of starvation,” complained some daily wagers.
As per the associations of daily wagers, “a number of departments including PHE are unable to pay them their regular dues.”
In some of the departments, even the permanent government employees haven’t received their salaries for the past many months. These include the Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation and the J&K Cements Ltd.
Employees of the JK cements told Early Times they have not received their salary for months, the JKPCC staff is paid wages after three months.
“The irony of this babugiri is that senior bureaucrats associated with departments do get their salaries in time but their subordinates have to suffer,” said a senior official in the Civil Secretariat.
He said a “coterie of bureaucrats” is misusing the holding of sporting and other events to hide their misadventures on multiple fronts.
“The point is that the public alienation is on the rise and even the government employees are suffering. New Delhi must make the erring babus accountable. Their performance needs to be seen beyond holding events,” said a source.
It’s in place to mention here that Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha is working hard to address the grievances of the people on all the fronts but the lackadaisical attitude of the officials is undoing all the good work. |
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