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| AJKPC holds protest, seeks rights of mining blocks for Panchayats | | | 
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 9: All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC) today held a demonstration against the failure of the government to make Panchayats self-reliant by not conferring mining rights to them till date.
Scores of elected members of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) assembled outside the office of Block Development Officer (BDO) Akhnoor and chanted slogans against the mining and geology department while launching UT-wide agitation against the failure of UT administration to confer mining rights to the Panchayats as announced by the government in July last year.
They said that common masses had been suffering badly due to highly inflated rates of mining material including sand, gravel etc as mining mafia from Punjab in collusion with local mafia has been ruling the roost in Jammu and Kashmir.
“The UT administration, particularly the Department of Mining and Geology, has left Panchayats to move on crutches.
It seems that some vested interests in the administration don’t want self-reliance of the Panchayats. In July last year, it was decided to grant mining blocks to the Panchayats through short permits to achieve financial empowerment of grassroots democratic institutions in rural pockets but nothing has been done in this direction so far,” said Anil Sharma, UT President of AJKPC.
Sharma said the Panchayat members across Jammu and Kashmir would submit memorandums to the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha through concerned DCs, SDMs and BDOs, seeking his personal intervention for granting mining blocks to Panchayats for making them self-reliant. |
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