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| Planning and execution system in J&K need modification | | | The state of Jammu and Kashmir has one distinction of maintaining,rather sustaining,its failure in securing implementation of various development
schemes in the state and the central sector within the stipulated time.The problem arises because of various factors but most of these factors are man-made.Yes,weather related problems do play a key role in the delay in the execution of projects within the stipulated time.But that can be limited to the Kashmir valley and the Ladakh region occasionally.The basic problem is the wide gap between the actual sanctioning of the project and the release of the funds. One example may be sufficient to confirm it.Under the centrally sponsored scheme the state Government was to implement a Rs.821 crore rural electrification programme by the end of 2010 but so far not even 60 per cent work has been completed.The state authorities blame the centre for having delayed the approval and the release of the funds.These authorities say that the rural electrification scheme had been conceived by the centre in 2005 but it was given the approval in 2008 and then only the
funds were released.But those in the centre say that the state authorities had conveyed to them that the project would be completed and 10,000 households will receive electricity supply by 2010.When the central authorities started examining the issue it was found that the work on the rural electrification programme had been started in 2008 and now the state wanted the period of the scheme be extended by another two years.One can find a situation in other sectors of development similar to the one in rural electrification programme.As far as the road construction work and augmentation of drinking water supply schemes are concerned not even 20 per cent schemes are executed within the stipulated time.Sometime it is weather that play the role of a villain and on other occasions there is a wide gap between the project approval and the relese of funds.Besides this in Jammu and Kashmir most of the development projects at the district and tehsil level are
usually approved during the district development Board meetings.Work on most of these small schemes is taken after the Board meetings are approved by the Government.The delay in convening the Board meetings delays the project sanctioning,approval,release of funds and the execution.Take the situation that exists by the middle of May 2010.Till date the schedule for the District Development Board meetings has not been finalised.Assuming that the Board meetings for the 22 districts are over by the end of June 2010 it will require another one month for the approval of the minutes or decisions of the development Boards.Another one month for the Government approval and yet another month for the release of funds.This means that by the end of July or the beginning of August the entire exercise required for starting the works will get completed.This leaves less then four months of working season in Kashmir and Ladakh and less than seven months in the hilly and
remote areas of Poonch,Rajouri,Doda,Kishtwar and Udhampur districts.Here lies the tragedy behind tardy implementation of development projects.And this has been the reason motivating the state Government to beg for extension in the completion of the projects from the central Government.Hence the traditional defective planning and execution system in the state calls for major modification so that most of the development schemes are completed within the stipulated time and whereever there is delay there should be some special and pressing reasons for that failing which the centre should reject the demand for extension in the project completion period.
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