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| Cabinet spending more time on minor details, less on policy matters | | Abhishek | | Jammu, Jan 22
Instead of concentrating on policy matters and finding out solutions to the problems of people, the State Cabinet spends almost half the time in taking decisions which are concerned less with the future of state but more with running of minor departments.
A perusal of the detailed list of the cabinet decisions furnished in the state assembly today reveals that the J&K govt runs in a very centralized manner and nothing in the state can move without the permission of cabinet per se.
Decisions which can easily be taken at the departmental level are also routed through the cabinet and this is one of the primary reasons that the development work in the state remains in inertia.
According to the list submitted in the assembly, one come to know that it is the cabinet which decides that a vehicle can be procured or not by a particular department in the state.
For instance, the cabinet made a decision regarding the purchase of a vehicle for accountability commission and funds were allotted for the same purpose.
Again it was the cabinet which approved that Power department could purchase a vehicle for chairperson for SERC and seven vehicles for PDC.
The cabinet also spent a considerable time in making transfers and postings in the Home department. Similarly, the cabinet decided for the purchase of 4 mahindra scorpios for Mughal road project.
Even the sanction of power connection for industrial use needs the approval of the cabinet. This however creates a lot of hassles for the industrialists, who are setting new units in the state.
Likewise, whether it is the creation of new posts in a department or bifurcation of the seniority list, it is the state cabinet which has the final say.
However, this centralization of powers in the hands of the cabinet, sometimes becomes a handicap for the government machinery as they keep on waiting for directions to handle most pressing situations.
Talking to early Times, Dheerj Sharma, a business man said that this also leads to an atmosphere which promotes corruption and nepotism. People, who have close access to the powers at the helm of affairs get their work done, but, ordinary folks are neglected in this case.
Even the transfers and postings at the lowest level are politicized, he said, adding that influential persons with political connections thus manage to have their cake and eat it too.
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