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Early Times Report
Jammu,February 2 :-Members of the state Assembly may have to debate on a ticklish issue if a bill seeking amendment to the state constitution was tabled during the ensuing budget session of the state legislature.The notice for the bill has been sent by leader of the Panthers legislature party,Harsh Dev Singh.Singh has,in his Bill,sought members support for prescribing some qualification for the legislators and ministers.
Harsh Dev said that he had given notice of the bill in the past but for one reason or the other it could not be tabled.He said he hoped the Bill will be tabled during the ensuing budget session of the Assembly.He said there was urgent need for amending section 36 and 38 of the state constitution so that some qualification was prescribed for legislators,especially for the ministers.
The Panthers leader explained that since the constitution was silent on the issue illiterate legislators got a chance to become ministers.He said that it was not possible for illiterate ministers to shape the destiny of people.He said that in the process illiterate ministers become a stooge in the hands of bureaucrats and these very bureaucrats run the administration in the name of the illiterate ministers.
Harsh Dev said that it was strange and amazing that when for appointment of Class IV employees there was qualification fixed for the orderlies why has not the constitution framers prescribed some qualification for the ministers.He said during the last 54 years things have changed and the spread of education had demanded that :"our ministers are educated."He said by amending section 36 and 38 of the constitution the Legislature could prescribe at least graduation for those who were to be given berth in the council of ministers.He said it would be better if it was made mandatory for a minister to have a law degree.That could help the ministers in dealing with legal aspects of each case that are sent to them for sanction and perusal or approval.
Harsh Dev said that it was because of lack of any prescribed qualification for the ministers that the ruling coalition had failed to spend Rs.30,000 crores that had been sanctioned by the central Government.He said that under the Prime Minister's package the state had been allotted Rs.30,000 crores to be spent on various development projects but during the last five years it could spend only Rs.6,000 crores and the remaining Rs.24,000 remained unutilised.He said that for better results"we should have qualified and educated ministers."
However,indications are that even if the bill is tabled it may not receive the support of a two-third majority required for emending any section of the state constitution.It has been seen that less educated political leaders and workers are more effective in handling the affairs of the party.
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