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Make govt accountable: Mehbooba to sarpanchs
‘Anantnag a picture of neglect, apathy’
6/13/2011 9:25:44 PM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, June 13 (KNS): Urging newly elected village leaders to use their representative character to stress accountability of governments Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti today said panchs and sarpanchs could usher in a new era of political awareness and performance audit.
Addressing the panchs and sarpanchs from Anantnag today she told them “you have the people’s mandate not just for local development but have to make governments accountable for their policies, programmes and implementation.”
The PDP president said the present government had unfortunately a ‘depressing record of performance not just on political and human rights fronts but it had nothing to show by way of governance as well.’
“There is a groundswell of discontent and alienation generated by rampant corruption, ineptitude, apathy, injustice and inefficiency which had the potential of an explosion in the particular context of the state,” she said.
Mehbooba said Anantnag, like almost every other area of the state had suffered on account of present government’s ‘inefficiency and insensitive functioning.’ She said the historic town and the villages around it present a picture of complete neglect which borders on vengeance.
“Roads that had been upgraded by the previous coalition are again in a dilapidated condition; power is rarely available even in the summer while winter was even more miserable,” she said major projects like the 300 bedded hospital which caters to people from even as far as Banihal and Ramban has been abandoned half way although it was envisaged to be upgraded as a medical college. Similarly no progress has been made to further develop the South campus of Kashmir University in accordance with original vision. “The fly over proposed for Khannabal crossing has met the same fate as those earmarked for Srinagar city while the shopping mall and its allied facilities are nowhere near completion.
Mehbooba said the villages around the town had a great potential of growth but the government had lost both focus on governance and the touch with masses which are required to provide a sensitive administration. “While PDP would continue raising these issues it was now for the elected village representatives to utilize the democratic space fully to make a change in the lives of people she said and asserted “the government will have to be compelled through popular action to do its duty towards the state.”
Mehbooba said the panchs and sarpanchs provide a new and much broader grass roots foundation to democratic fabric of the state that has not developed adequately for various reasons. But the elections only initiate a new process of democratization which would lack meaning in absence of a democratic environment, its institutionalization through empowerment and assistance from the government.
She said the elections in fact mark a beginning of a long journey to political emancipation and empowerment of individual and the elected bodies as nucleus of growth.
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