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| Discrimination and bias in sanctioning and execution of centrally sponsored schemes in J&K | | | Early Times Report
jammu, April 7: The districts of Leh and Doda are at the bottom as far as completion of road projects, under the PMGSY programme, is concerned. Official reports said that during the last about one decade just 17 per cent of the total road projects sanctioned for Leh district have been completed and in case of Doda district the authorities have achieved 24 per cent of the target.
What seems to be amazing is that the concerned authorities have been able to complete only 29 per cent of the total road projects sanctioned in Poonch against 81 per cent in Pulwama district. Equally amazing is the bias the central Government has shown while sanctioning projects under PMGSY. This is evident from the report which reveals that while 208 projects were sanctioned for Anantnag district, only 69 projects and 42 works had been sanctioned for the districts of Jammu and Kathua respectively.
Another intriguing aspect of the PMGSY is that while 26 projects had been sanctioned for Leh district 40 projects had been sanctioned for the district of Kargil. Experts smell a rat in the completion of 38 per cent works in Kargil district against 17 per cent in Leh district.
Working chairman, Panthers Party, Harsh Dev Singh, has demanded a thorough probe into the circumstances and reasons that had led to the completion of 36 per cent of 170 projects sanctioned for Udhampur district and 24 per cent target of 138 road projects sanctioned for Doda district.
Harsh Dev has stated that the concerned authorities had given a raw deal to the Jammu region, in comparison to the Kashmir valley, not only in the allotment of road projects under PMGSY but also in the execution of these works.
Over the years the successive state Governments have set a bad example by having failed in achieving even 50 per cent target in the completion of development projects under various centrally sponsored schemes.
If one takes into account the latest CAG report and other field reports one is convinced over the reports indicating that at various stages the central Government had stopped releasing funds for various ongoing scheme because of the inordinate delay in the submission of the funds utilization reports.
Experts are of the opinion that the centre should carry out a major review all its schemes sanctioned for the state of Jammu an Kashmir so that whatever discrimination has taken place in the allotment of projects was corrected and the state agencies were forced to adopt a new technique in planning and execution of centrally sponsored schemes.
Harsh Dev Singh is of the opinion that in case practices were neither revised nor corrected all the central sponsored schemes may not achieve the desired results. He has suggested to the central Government to introduce a mechanism under which implementation of the centrally sponsored schemes was carried out on a regular basis. |
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