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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 11
While majority of ministers and legislators in both houses of State Legislature have not possessed good academic record, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) have introduced a bill seeking amendment in the State Constitutions so that some educational qualification is prescribed for legislators.
Sources, however, indicated that majority of legislators may not vote in favour of this bill in the ensuing Assembly session commencing from February 22.
The notice for the bill has been sent by leader of the Panthers legislature party, Harsh Dev Singh. The bill is expected to come up for discussion during the ensuing budget session of the state legislature.
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, adding that he hoped the Bill would 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 is prescribed for legislators, especially for the ministers.
The JKNPP leader explained that since the constitution is 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, adding that in the process illiterate ministers become a stooge in the hands of bureaucrats who run the administration in the name of the “illiterate” bosses.
Harsh Dev ridicules, “it is strange that when for appointment of Class IV employees there is qualification fixed for the orderlies why has not the constitution framers prescribed some qualification for the ministers?”
He said ruing the last 54 years things have changed and the spread of education had demanded that "our ministers should be 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 better if it was made mandatory for a minister to have a law degree and it 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 and the remaining Rs.24, 000 remained untilised.
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