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| Can CM guaranttee right to life? | | Services under PSGA | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 7: Announcing `first revolutionary step of its kind', the government through a full page advertisement in local dailies spoke of peoples' empowerment. The advertisement gave the highlights of Jammu Kashmir Public Service Guarantee Act, 2011 (JKPSGA).
Thanks to this Act, the people will now get State Subject certificate within 30 days, Reserved Category certificate has to be issued within 15 days, extract of Fard Intikhaab within 10 days, attestations of mutations within 30 days and so on.
Similarly the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department has to issue a duplicate ration card within 7 days. The newly born child is to be included in the ration card within 7 days. The advertisement also makes a mention of electric connections, water connections, issue of driving license, and registration of vehicles, issue of death and birth certificates and building permissions. And as per the new Act all these services have to be given within the prescribed time failing which the concerned can be fined to the tune of Rs 5000.
Through this advertisement, the State Information Department has tried to paint a rosy picture of future Jammu Kashmir. The government hopes that in future, the people will get a fair deal. Wishful thinking indeed. The new Act reflects that the government has failed miserably to provide prompt services to the people. This is an admission that the government departments are not functioning properly. This speaks volumes about the `efficiency' of the government now headed by Omar Abdullah. A legislation is needed to set the official machinery into motion! What are the government departments meant for, by the way?
And last but not the least, a person must live to avail the `prompt services' guaranteed under the Jammu Kashmir Public Service Guarantee Act, 2011. Apart from the state's killer roads, the men in uniform take life at will. A youth is arrested and after a few hours his body is handed over to his traumatized relatives. A student of eleventh standard goes out to play with his friends. He is shot dead by a security agency. His relatives have to march towards Chief Minister's residence to get his mauled body. Another student after playing cricket gets killed when a tear smoke shell smashes his delicate skull. An unmarried girl reddens her palms with her own blood when a bullet from a police man's rifle pierces her heart. A carpenter from South Kashmir is taken into custody and eliminated in a fake encounter for reward.
A dispensation that cannot guarantee right to life should not assure prompt services to its people. A person needs State Subject Certificate, a water connection, a ration card only when he lives. When he is dead, he only needs a death certificate! |
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