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Jammu, Oct 11 : Criticizing the Congress led coalition government for asking local bodies to raise resources on their own, Jammu and Kashmir wing of Bhartiya Janta Party today demanded that the government should instead immediate steps for making these institutions financially independent.
Addressing a press conference, here today, senior BJP leader and former Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) mayor Kavinder Gupta said that the recent statement of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad about the local bodies was more than a shock for the general masses. “The statement that the local bodies should not depend on the state government for financial needs has come as a shock to us," he said adding, “We had expected Azad to fulfill the assurance made at the time of constitution of local bodies that the government would set apart ten percent of the total toll tax for strengthening them”.
Gupta said that his party is well aware of the fact that local bodies also raise some funds for meeting civic needs of the people but at the same time they (local bodies) are powerless bodies, with the government interfering in its affairs at all levels.
He alleged that the worst part of the whole situation has been the negative attitude of the state government to the resolutions which the Jammu Municipal Corporation adopted unanimously from time to time to draw the attention of the authorities to the basic problems and needs of the corporation.
“State government has not approved any of the suggestion as contained in the over sixty resolutions of JMC passed during the past nineteen months”, he alleged. This is the reason the councilors belonging to all political formations have not been able to come up to the expectation of the people, added Gupta. |
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