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| NC runs government on whims, Congress bound by coalition Dharma | | NC's iron hand on its people in Kashmir is an apparent welcome to the opposition in PDP that has already shown its teeth deep in the valley in recently concluded Panchayat elections Photo by Waseem Andrabi | |  Early Times Report
jammu, July 18: The state government's handling of the demands made by its employees has been pathetic. The government has been cracking its whip on its own employees. It is like a confused person trying to break his own legs.
It has been the track record of the ruling National Conference (NC) to make promises and then quickly backtrack on them. The state government during its negotiations with the agitating employees agreed to all the demands raised by the employees and this includes the payment of the arrears as per the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission.
Two years back, the government made promises to the leaders of the striking government employees and it was based on those assurances that the employees returned to work after a protracted session of negotiations between the leaders of the striking employees and the state government.
Suddenly after the negotiations eased the tensions for the state government, the government started talking of financial constraints and other problems which stood in government's way to fulfill the promises made to its employees.
Agreed, the state of Jammu and Kashmir has financial constraints which must be taken into account by its striking employees. But, the bigger questions still remain unanswered. Why are there no financial constraints when huge sums of money are spent by the ministers for their personal comfort? Examples run into hundreds and it is better to leave the matter for the conscience of the ministers to ponder and make personal judgments.
The state government employees have the right to receive the arrears as per the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission. The state government is morally and legally bound to release the benefits and any further delay in this regard would only make matters worse. The employees will also have to act responsibly while raising the demand for enhancement of the retirement age from the existing 58 to 60 years. The numbers of educated, professionally trained graduates and post graduates in various disciplines and in the general stream run into thousands. Many of the unemployed educated persons are likely to cross the upper age limit prescribed for recruitment in government services. Their plight has almost been ignored by the state government and still the state government employees, who are part of the society and expected to behave as its responsible members, must not remain callous as their big bosses.
The NC has always benefitted by exploiting the sentiments of the state government employees when it was out of power.
It is strange that the same NC politicians and leaders who are in power today and are talking of financial constraints were in the forefront in the past for extending the benefits of the 6th Pay Commission to state government employees. It is strange, but true that the NC has been always indulging in doublespeak which has been the history of the party ever since 1947. A well known national level politician had once said of the NC founder, late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, "He is a nationalist in New Delhi, a secularist in Jammu and a communalist in Srinagar." It can now be safely said that the NC is Pro-government employees when out of power and their worst enemy when in power.
The Congress as power partners of the NC is only watching the situation like mute spectators. When asked to comment on the delaying tactics adopted by the state government regarding the demands of the state government employees, a senior minister of the Congress in the coalition said, "It is our coalition Dharma not to voice feelings against the allies. The issue is being handled by our NC partners and they would be in a better position to answer your questions." The remarks of the Congress minister prove that collective responsibility has nothing to do with the coalition government in J&K. |
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