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| Govt presents rosy picture of flagship schemes to PC team | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
srinagar, Oct 11: Has the Government of Jammu & Kashmir succeeded in telling and selling lies on implementation of the centrally sponsored flagship schemes to the Planning Commission (PC) team, currently visiting the Valley, would become clear only after Sayeeda Hamid and her colleagues are back in the union Capital. What is, however, unmistakably clear at this point of time is that Omar Abdullah's bureaucracy is literally burning midnight oil to narrow the gap between its PowerPoint presentations and the actual achievements in the field.
Successive governments in J&K have been invariably complaining of non-cooperation and non-availability of funds from the Centre. It is also a common factor of all regimes that they take refuge behind street turbulence, insurgency and hostile weather whenever New Delhi demands performance reports, utilization certificates and other accounts of the Centrally-sponsored developmental programm-es.
In the district Sayeeda Hamid visited today to learn about the condition of Anganwari Centres, a Minister of Omar Abdullah's Cabinet has got his own aunt appointed as Worker-cum-Helper at one of these Centres. Her husband happens to be the owner of two cars, each costing Rs 4 Lakh to 6 Lakh. To cap it all, he is shortly expected to get district franchise of Maruti Udhyog Ltd. In the process, all 30-odd contenders, almost all living below poverty level, have been sidelined. None, repeat none, was invited for interview though nobody's application was entertained in absence of a postal envelop.
In the same district, Public Analysts of Food and Drug Control Organisation have lately observed that adulterated nutrition items, dangerously harmful to young children, had been provided to most of the 1500-odd centres, imperiling the life of nearly 30,000 children. Samples collected from all the ten medical blocks of the district have been found adulterated. Chief Medical Officer has written to F& DC Organisation for registration of a criminal case but there has been no action. Ignoring the culpability of officials of Social Welfare Department responsible for receiving and supplying the adulterated quantities, CMO has sought registration of FIR under the obsolete Prevention of Food Adulteration Act and not the effective legislative that came into force earlier this year.
Insiders insist that over 70 percent of the centres, claimed to have been opened and operated under Phase-3 of the scheme, are either fully non-functional or function for once or twice a week. Statistics indicate that protest demonstrations occurred at over 100 places this year, latest being in Langet area of Handwara today, but authorities have chosen to remain mute spectators. Even the complaints submitted to Director and State Vigilance Organization have gone unheard.
Bureaucracy has been particularly ineffective in stopping the culture of allotment of high-cost constructions without floating tenders by the Directorate.
MN NREGA has shown some positive results in only two districts of the state out of 22. In Kashmir valley, Kupwara alone has some presentable indicators. |
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