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| PDP, BJP not happy | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar Aug 10: Peoples Democratic Party has described the annual budget for 2009-10 as directionless and uninspiring. In a statement the party president Mehbooba Mufti said the budget presented by the government today had belied expectations of any relief and it had pricked the balloon of the coalition government introducing a new visionary agenda.
She said the finance minister had failed to respond to the burning issues facing the state which are driving major sections of society to agitate on streets. The failure of the government to announce unemployment allowance for the thousands of educated youth after creating media hype about it had exposed government’s callous attitude. Similarly government had failed to introduce any employment generation scheme and tried to pedal normal recruitment to government jobs as a mercy on the people.
She further said government had failed to present a road map for the economic and developmental future of the state through the budget document as would have been expected. But, it has instead resorted to counting the major projects like Mughal road, International airport
and Bypasses as its own achievements even though everyone is aware about the reality about them as having been taken up during the previous coalition government. Referring to the increase in taxes on petrol a diesel Mehbooba said the PDP will oppose the proposals tooth and nail as they directly hit the interests of common man. Describing finance minister’s logic behind the steep increase as fake, Mehbooba said he has spared no section of society without a pinch at a time when state was faced with deep economic distress as a result of almost total failure of apple crop, drought in most parts and the adverse effect on export of handicrafts as a result of global recession. Meanwhile, BJP, MLA, Chaman Lal Gupta said that no attention has been paid to tackle the price hike of essential commodities besides little steps are there to sort out the problems of the peasants. He further said that no concrete steps have been proposed to overcome the problems of the unemployment of educated and other youths. The problems facing the refugees and those of the displaced persons have beer ignored, he said and added budget is like that of a balance sheet of a commission agent, who is generally interested in his own benefits rather than of the consumer.
Chaman said above all the proposed increase in the emoluments of the working class especially those of the daily rated workers who were neglected during the previous coalition does not commensurate with the sharp rise in the prices of pulses and other eatables of the poor man.
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