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| India Today's survey highly flawed, Omar's government a flop | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 24: The reality is that the people of the state have never seen a government of the type Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has handed down. It cannot be described as a government at all. It would be no exaggeration to say that it is a government of Omar Abdullah and his men, by Omar Abdullah and his men and for Omar Abdullah and his men and that all others are at disadvantageous position.
The India Today's survey praises the NC-led government. What is the basis? Who have conducted this survey? From which place they conducted the survey? Whom did the surveyors meet? Did they meet the people in the state or did they base their findings on the fudged figures or figures supplied to them by certain elements in the state government? What made them draw a conclusion different from the one drawn by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS)? It is for the India Today's management and its surveyors to answer these questions. But the public perception is what it is. It is altogether different. An, it is public perception that matters.
The public perception is that the NC-led government has failed to deliver on any front. The public perception is that they have got a government that is most inefficient, that is most corrupt, that is not transparent, that is not accountable, that is not delivering, that is non-performing and that is interested more in formulating and implementing policies that suit only the undesirable forces and certain categories of people. The public perception is that it is corruption and corruption everywhere and that it has become impossible for ordinary and suffering people to get their genuine work done without greasing the palms of the concerned officials. The public perception is that the healthcare machinery in the state is in a shambles. The public perception is that the state-owned hospitals just can't cater to the needs of the people and that only those who have no money visit the government hospitals. The public perception is that even the Government Medical College is the most mismanaged institution where influential persons could avail themselves of the available facilities and where the poor do not get the attention they deserve. The public perception is that the moneyed men are also afraid of visiting the government-run hospitals, primary health centers and dispensaries and prefer private clinics, nursing homes and hospitals.
The public perception is that the whole of the education system is in a shambles. The public perception is that only those who could not afford to send their wards to private educational institutions send their sons and daughters to the under-staffed and ill-equipped government-run schools where the dropout rate is very, very high. The public perception is that moneyed men do not send their children to the government-run schools. The public perception is that the government jobs have become the sole preserve of the influential persons and those who could pay. The public perception is that it is the sons and daughters of the influential persons, mostly politicians and bureaucrats, who grab almost all the seats in the technical and professional institutions. The public perception is that those who have money could get everything and those having no money have no place whatever in the official scheme of things. The public perception is that the state government has even failed to provide safe drinking water to a very vast majority of the people. The public perception is that it is anarchy and anarchy everywhere in the state and that those who are in power are in a looting spree.
The public perception, in short, is that the common citizens in the state are the most neglected lot and that there is none in the government who is prepared to take cognizance of their woes and difficulties, that even the government employees, minus handful of bureaucrats and senior officials, are a dissatisfied lot and that the Omar Abdullah-led government is a "total flop."
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah would well to go by the public perception because the people's voice is considered as the voice of god. He should not go by the India Today's survey because it is based on heresy and not on facts. He should remember that it was not for nothing that the CCS had questioned him and his administration and opined that it was "governance deficit" and "trust deficit" that was responsible the developments that unfolded in the Valley after June 11 this year. (Concluded) |
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