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| Gupta paints gloomy picture of budget session | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 2- Describing the just concluded Budget session of the state assembly as ‘little promising’ the leader of the BJP legislators party Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta has said that the government has been evasive on most of the issues.
He said it was unfortunate that the coalition government could not come out with any concrete solution of the people’s problems except making some vague statements about the problems of certain sections of employees and that of adhoc and contractual ones.
The most amazing part of the whole melodrama was that the government could not come out with any concrete policy or program for sorting out the problems of the unemployed youth. On the contrary they declined having made any promises about providing job to at least one member of a family and subsistence allowance to the unemployed youth although these were the major slogans on which the Congress/NC had been contesting the assembly elections.
He said that most sad part of the budget session was that on many occasions the government was not only evasive in their replies but also misleading too.
He said Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Rather has exposed the claims of progress and prosperity as also that the assertions of zero- deficit being claimed by the erstwhile PDP-Congress coalition.
But the statements of Rather cannot absolve the National Conference too, as during the past 62 years most of the period both the Congress and the NC ruled this state in one form or the other and what mess they have created can be judged from the fact that over Rs. 300 lakh crores where brought from the centre for putting this state at the road of progress and prosperity. This huge expenditure also included about Rs. 140 lakh crores during the past twelve years. But the ground reality is that the dependence of this state is mounting at the centre with each day passing, so much so that the revenue receipts of the state from its own internal resources are hardly about Rs. 4000 crores whereas, the salaries of the state staff about have gone up to over Rs. 6500 crores.
He further pointed out the number of BPL families has increased from about 4.17 lakhs twelve years back to now 7.36 lakhs. The imports of food grains have shot up to over 7 lakh metric tones from 28000 in 1951.
Despite massive spending on agriculture and other sectors, the state has come to be dependent in the field of vegetables, mutton, pulses, edibles and the chicken/eggs, he added and said surprisingly the state has come to be dependent even in the field of timber which was the main source of revenue during Maharaja’s time.
Referring to the energy needs of the state Prof. Gupta said that despite having the vast Hydel Power potential of 20,000MWs, the respective governments have failed to such an extent that over 70 per cent requirement of the electricity are depending upon imports. Not only this, the state could not provide even the drinking water to the people in six decades of their rule/misrule.
About the regional disparities Prof. Gupta alleged that the attitude adopted by the Congress and NC leaders was confusing on the issue of Central University and their silence on Delimitation Commission as also the contradictory approach about the Bill regarding inter-district recruitment to deprive the SC/STs of their rights, well indicate their communal mind set and regional bias against Jammu.
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He alleged that the NC is still communally diseased and the Congress is playing second fiddle just to enjoy the luxuries of power even at the cost of interest of the country and that of the people.
Prof. Gupta observed that non-seriousness of this government can be well judged that the young Chief Minister remained conspicuous by his absence from the august House for much of the time despite protests from the opposition benches. And above all his absence even from the concluding session of the assembly virtually speaks volumes about his contemptuous attitude towards this highest democratic body of the state of which the young man happens to be the leader, he added.
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