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| Check administrative chaos before it is too late | | | Various government agencies have not refunded funds that they were not able to utilise on different schemes within the stipulated time. There are a number of Government departments that have diverted funds from one sector to the other without assigning convincing reasons for the diversion. Funds meant for various development projects have been diverted to non productive sectors. This has been going on in Jammu and Kashmir for the last several years but these irregularities are said to have increased during the last three years. A stage has come when the government has shown no hesitation in diverting funds from the plan to the non plan sector. Another irregularity has remained unchecked. This pertains to the inordinate delay in the submission of project fund utilization reports with the result the concerned departments in the Government of India have either suspended release of funds or they delayed sanction of another installments of funds. This naturally has affected the pace of execution of various centrally sponsored schemes. On various occasions the state Government is compelled to seek from the centre extension in the project completion dates.
This is one aspect of the administrative anarchy in Jammu and Kashmir which has earned the distinction of being the second corrupt state, after Bihar, in India. Another aspect of administrative dictatorship and oligarchy is in the shape of state government's failure in streamlining the working of the State Accountability Commission and the Vigilance Commission to allow these autonomous boto assume teeth. Yet another aspect of administrative chaos is the lack of either supervision or monitoring system in order to ensure that the process of functioning and selection by the State Public Service Commission and the state Subordinate Services Selection Board was transparent and without any sign of favouritism,nepotism and free of regional bias. In the absence of any system of checks and balances some heads of Government departments have started throwing to winds or ignoring court orders and directions. It can happen only in Jam-mu and Kashmir that a Deputy Commissioner writes to the Government that Additional Commissioner has been accepting bribe.
If one takes into account various administrative lapses and irregularities one may have no hesitation in blaming the existing political structure for this mess. There are many who are of the opinion that these irregularities have remained unchecked and un resolved because of the compulsions the Chief Minister and his ministerial colleagues feel under the coalition rule. But those who do not accept that coalition compulsions are factors responsible for the administrative chaos refer to the three-year period when Mufti Mohd. Sayeed headed the coalition Government between 2002 and 2005. Even during the time Ghulam Nabi Azad headed the coalition the level of administrative dictatorship was on a low key. In fact the basic reason is that Omar Abdullah neither takes into confidence his ministerial colleagues nor the senior bureaucrats. Had he done so he could have discussed with them ways and means for strengthening his grip on the entire administration. Possibly Omar believes as was the case with his father that the key to his survival was to keep the powers that be in the centre in good humour.If he does so let the state, he rules, go to dogs. Well, Omar should understand that good governance alone is guarantee for his survival and it has been demonstrated by Bihar Chief Minister, Nitesh Kumar, and Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi. |
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