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| Budget claims don't match with ground realities: Chaman | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 13: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today picked holes in the annual Budget presented by Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Rather in Legislative Assembly here, saying "the claims of the Finance Minister do no match with the ground realities and figures given are also illusory and misleading".
"These claims are belied from the fact that the number of poor is increasing. The unemployment is on the rise, the imports of essential commodities are galloping coupled with the soaring prices and above all the fiscal dependence is touching new heights. The political corruption by way of creating extra constitutional posts is a bigger malady affecting the whole system," said Chaman Lal Gupta while taking part in the discussion on budget.
He charged that the distortion in figures is very much evident from the fact that the Revenue Receipts on account of power revenue realization in 2008-09 against the target of Rs 922 crores was only Rs. 630 crores resulting in losses to the tune of 69.13 per cent and was also pointed out by Rather himself when he was in the opposition but now he has projected the Revenue receipts of Rs. 1065 crores for the current year and Rs. 1055 crores for the next year.
"One cannot reconcile with this big increase because of about Rs. 400 crores addition in just one year could not be possible. It appears this figure has been inflated just by the book adjustment by showing recovery of huge arrears on this account from various Govt. departments," he pointed out. "No concrete measure has been proposed to overcome this problem although about two years back it was announced by the previous coalition to fill up 76,000 vacancies within three months but now after two years it is being boasted that during the past over a year 20655 vacancies have been identified," he observed and added that the prices of essential commodities are shooting up with little check making the life of a common man miserable.
Contrary to the directives of austerity the extra-constitutional posts have been created which is breeding the political corruption and adding to the burden of exchequer. He further said that in the Budget speech no mention has been made to have accountability of Rs. 2004 crores bungling and mismanagement which was alleged by no less than a person by the Chief Minister himself in this House while replying to the debate on the Governor's address the other day.
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