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| Power chapter of economic survey flawed, erratum soon | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Mar 11: Economic survey for year 2010-11 tabled in both houses of state legislature recently is flawed and an erratum of the same is likely to be published soon.
Early Times was the first to point out grave discrepancies in the survey and had carried a story "Is J&K's economic survey jugglery of figures?" in its March 7, 2010 issue. Both the planning and finance department had then claimed that there was nothing wrong in the report while adding that 'clerical mistakes should be blown out of proportion."
However, it has been learnt reliably that immediately after the report was published in Early Times, government took note of it and ordered the planning department to verify the same. Sources said that on verification, it was found that there were serious flaws in the chapter on Power sector in the survey report.
They asserted that government immediately sought an explanation of the same from the department of Economics and Statistics which had compiled the report. In return, the department, according to sources informed the government that its report is based on the data supplied by the Power Development Department (PDD) and hence, explanation for supplying erroneous data should be sought from them.
Sources in the department of economics and statistics said that PDD first mailed a copy of the data which was incorporated in the survey report. Later, PDD handed over a CD containing another set of facts and figures to the then Director Economics and Statistics S.A.Qureshi for being incorporated in the survey report, added the sources.
They disclosed that since the PDD officials insisted, data on the CD was preferred over the data mailed by the department. Sources further said that none of the officials who had been tasked with compiling the data received from various departments including PDD bothered to tabulate the same with the Economic Survey for the Year 2009-10.
They said that while the report was tabled in both the houses, even the Planning minister who is Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the present case knew nothing about the report. Sources further said that finance minister Abdul Rahim Rather was deeply disappointed after coming to know about the errors in the reports especially in the Power chapter.
"We are going to issue an erratum of the Economic Survey 2010-11 soon. Even, we are baffled. We never knew that the data provided by PDD was erroneous," said an official of headless Department of Economic and Statistics. He asserted that government should take PDD to task for misleading those compiling the data.
PDD officials however refuted the allegations and said that data in the present survey is correct. "They are misleading you. The data was compiled by them and as a matter of fact, they have provided wrong information in the earlier surveys. We this time did the Job meticulously and removed all the errors which we found in the surveys of the past," asserted the officials of PDD. —Early Times Report |
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