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| Govt approach non-serious, delinquent; DDCs gave incomplete, useless, erroneous information | | State Finance Commission Report-Part III - - - Telephone, Internet remained out of bounds | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Jammu, Nov 30: Jammu and Kashmir State Finance Commission (SFC) has accused the state government of being 'non-serious and delinquent' towards its effective functioning during the three years of its laborious work.
Tech-savvy Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's government neither provided landline telephone facility to the commission nor accesses to internet both at its Srinagar as well as Jammu office. Such were the commission members annoyed that they have advised government to dispel the perception among officers who are posted in the commission that it is dumping ground or resting place for unwanted.
They have accused the government machinery of putting the politically significant and regionally critical Jammu and Kashmir State Finance Commission (JKSFC) to inconveniences and embarrassments. Commission members have in the report said that they were left to fend for themselves for accommodation and coax and flatter concerned officers to provide furniture and wherewithal.
They have taken exception to the fact that tenure of commission was extended in piece meals while adding that a lot of time was lost in procedural wrangling and avoidable cross consultations between departments of the government. In the five volume report, it has been alleged that from its very inception to the submission of report, commission faced serious problems with respect to posting of secretary, additional personnel with subject knowledge, support system and infrastructure.
Commission came into being by an enactment on August 30, 2006 with the appointment of Dr. Deen Mohammad as its secretary. The same continued vide the govt order no: 254-F of 2007 dated 27-08-2007. Dr. Deen Mohammed relinquished office on December 31, 2007 and the commission remained without secretary for eight months till June 2008 when senior IAS officer A.K. Raina joined as Secretary.
The report maintains that Raina was recalled from the commission in January 2009 and commission remained without secretary for about two months till the posting of another senior IAS officer Jeet Lal Gupta in April 2009. Gupta was also transferred in March 2010 and the charge was handed over to Yadullah Saleem in addition to his own duties as Secretary Cooperative and Rural Development Department.
However, during the three years of its functioning, commission witnessed frequent transfers of its key functionary, the secretary and remained without the services of secretary for about ten months. Apart from delinquency in the placement of officers, the commission had to face serious accommodation problems.
Chairman and Members were provided with rooms after they assumed office in the first week of September-2007 in the civil secretariat at Srinagar. However, when the Durbar moved to Jammu in November 2007, commission faced difficulties in getting office accommodation for members in secretariat premises. After a long drawn battle, two rooms were provided, one each for Secretary and Chairman until May 2008 when Darbar shifted to Srinagar where the commission was housed in a private accommodation in Karan Nagar and the same was acquired by commission in July 2008.
Accommodation problem continued in Jammu until private accommodation like Srinagar was acquired in Trikuta Nagar Jammu where the commission shifted in February 2009. Thus, much of the time was lost in acquiring, furnishing and face-lifting of the private accommodations at Srinagar and Jammu, commission has said. However, even at the cost of loss of number of working months, commission's private accommodations both at Srinagar and Jammu remained without telephone and internet facilities.
The telephone facility was put in place at Trikuta Nagar in Jammu at the fag end of Durbar move in March 2010. Commission also approached government to nominate senior functionaries, one each from finance, planning and GAD as nodal officers to facilitate access of commission to information, required data and other official records. It had also requisitioned deputation of statistical assistants for compilation and collation of data. Even these were not made available despite several reminders.
Commission required comprehensive and reliable data to prepare the report. Despite circulating structured questionnaires to various heads of departments including District Development Commissioners, responses from concerned were not forthcoming and required the issuance of various reminders by the commission's office as well as Chief Minister who heads the Planning Department and Chief Secretary.
Data and Information obtained from the Deputy Commissioners were generally incomplete, full of contradictions and errors. Such was the mess that commission could not make use of most of it. Therefore, the commission mostly relied on the officially published secondary sources of Data. Many heads of departments failed to supply the information required by the commission. |
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