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| Why should Ministers' cell phone bills be paid from public exchequer? | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, May 3: Even as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah swears by responsive and accountable governance, his Ministerial colleagues are frustrating the claims made by him in his hyped Awami mulaqats by not responding to frantic calls made to them on their official numbers whose huge bills are paid from public exchequers.
The official numbers of all the Ministers have been put on display on the official website of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir for the convenience of general public, but most of them do not respond to calls. Repeated calls on the official cell phone number of most of the Ministers fail to evoke any response as Ministers respond only to the calls of their political workers, staff, friends and relatives whose numbers they have saved in their contact lists.
Even journalists who try to reach out to them for Government's reaction to vital issues concerning their departments fail to contact the Ministers, whose number can otherwise be found busy for long durations.
It is pertinent to mention here that the idea behind paying huge telephone bills of the Ministers from the public exchequer is that they should respond to public calls. When busy, the Ministers can direct their PAs and PROs who are also paid from the public exchequer to respond to calls on their official cell phone numbers.
It is imperative for the Chief Minister to instruct his Ministers and even bureaucrats to respond to calls of general public on their official telephone numbers if he actually cares for providing responsive governance to the people of the State. |
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