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| Corruption allegations about Construction of Transit Accommodations in Valley for Kashmiri Migrants | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sep 3: Lot of din has already been raised on the inadequate and substandard facilities having been built at the much-publicized town-ship at Jagati for the displaced Kashmiri Hindus who were living in one room tenements at Muthi, Nagrota, Purkhoo and Mishriwala camps in Jammu. Panun Kashmir’s press conference recently, detailing the findings of its fact finding team which took stock of things in the Jagati township, seems to have been taken due notice by the authorities as the residents at the Jagati Camp have been reportedly told that “all shortcomings in the facilities and the construction work will be removed in a month’s time”. Residents in the Jagati township are, however, having a deeper dilemma. They feel that the “entire construction of two-room quarters at Jagati is substandard and if investigative agencies qualify them as substandard and dangerous to live where will they go as the one room tenements at their previous camp sites have already been demolished”. While it is known that a vigilance probe for Jagati two-room Quarters is already on and the hands of the investigating officer are more than full, the Early Times reporters have noticed simmering of doubts and apprehensions about the “construction standards for the pre-fab transit quarters in Kashmir valley” built for the newly-returned Kashmiri Hindu employees recruited as per the Prime Ministers package on return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Migrants.
The transit quarters in various parts of the valley have been made of pre-fabricated material and it is being openly complained there that the “construction work for these facilities have been done in violation of the rules”. It is being said that the “more than 100-crore project has been implemented without floating proper tenders through he aegis of SICOP”. If it is true that no tenders were floated for works of installation of pre-fab structures, roads, drainage, septic tanks and soakage pits etc. then we are perhaps witnessing the unfolding of a new scandal of huge proportions. Relief Commissioner and the concerned ministry have to do a lot of explaining to set the doubts and apprehensions to rest.
It is being openly discussed that the “transit accommodations at various places in the valley have been built with substandard material”. Is it true?
It is being said that “for the community halls which were built at Muthi, Purkhoo and Nagrota two-room tenements, tenders were floated with rate specifications of Rs 890 per SFT, while as pre fab structures in the valley cost Rs.1580 SFT”. Is it true?
Rumors are galore that the “two companies which were allotted the project for building the transit facilities were floated recently and had the patronage of a very important bureaucrat”. Is it true?
Inadequacies at Jagati Camp and the vigilance enquiries have raised many questions about “even older projects financed by the Government of India in the valley for creating an atmosphere for the return of Kashmiri Hindus”. People have even raised fingers about the “construction work for dharamshallas at the famous Kheer Bhawani shrine”. It is being said that “there was the sagging of the roof of the ground floor of one of the dharamshallas which was labelled as unsafe construction for some time. It was a little later that the label was removed after installing an iron pillar to support the sagging slab”. To hide the whole defect “similar iron pillars were subsequently put in place in all other dharamshallas to make it appear as if it was part of the original design”.
With such whispering campaigns taking place it seems the authorities are responding only by ignoring them. Is it reluctance to join the issues and clear the din or apprehension that skeletons may tumble out in case the issue is fiddled with?
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