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| J&K natives powerless | | | Chairperson of District Development Council Kishtwar, Puja Thakur, has been sitting on a dharna for the past two weeks to seek employment for local youth at the under-construction 1000-megawatt Pakal Dul hydroelectric power project. But the administration is not paying any attention to the issue being raised by her.
The officers who have interacted with Thakur seem unrelenting and it appears that they don’t want the DDC chairperson to take credit for breaking the ice and paving the way for getting youth employed in the project. Or it could be the other way round: they don’t want the company handling the Pakal Dul power project to get overburdened by employing locals.
The DDC members who were elected after J&K’s transition into a Union Territory are being treated shabbily by the bureaucrats as no one is listening to them. It appears that the bureaucrats are in no mood to share power with the DDC members. They don’t want people’s representatives to get empowered.
After the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, DDC members are the only link between the administration and the people. After the conduct of the first-ever DDC elections in December 2020, it was announced that power would be decentralized, but these claims have remained confined to papers only. There has been no decentralization.
Bureaucrats acting like monarchs has triggered resentment in every section of the society. Businessmen, unemployed youth, former MLAs and elected representatives are unhappy. They have a common complaint that no one is listening to them and helmsmen are not interested in addressing the problems of common people. They are running the system according to their whims and fancies and seem least bothered about what the common man is facing.
If the people at the top don’t change their attitude and keep on ignoring the pleas of a common man it can have far reaching consequences. Masses are losing faith over the system and have gone on record to say that they were better off when Article 370 was in vogue. At least there was someone whom they could approach. But in the present era the administration has become inaccessible and the ones who can help the people are in no mood to exert. The pictures of DDC chairperson, Puja Thakur, breaking down have gone viral on social media. These pictures depict how powerless J&K natives have been rendered. |
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