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| Empower PRIs or face agitation: Panchayat members | | | Yash Bhasin | 6/12/2012 10:25:39 PM |
| Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 12: Association of members of Panchayat, Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference has threatened the government of launching a statewide agitation if their demands of implementing the Panchayati Raj Act and empowerment of Panchayats were not met. The Conference has given one month ultimatum to the government to fulfill its demands. Speaking to media agency, the Vice Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference Abdul Majid Mir said the organization will launch a statewide agitation and go for secretariat gherao in case their demands were not met within one month. "The Chief Minister has said he will ensure empowerment with 15 days. We will wait and watch for one month. We feel the Chief Minister is sincere and we have decided to give him time", said Mir. "People have elected thirty eight thousand Panches and Sarpanches. If the government fails to fulfill our demands, we will launch agitation and gherao the state secretariat, for the whole world to see", added Mir. He said, "We have won mandate of people and we won't resign over failure as our people have hopes attached to us and thus we will fight for our people- the voters." Enumerating demands, the members of Panchyat Conference asked the government to fix a monthly honorarium for panches and Sarpanches apart from constituting the block development councils. "We want suitable honorarium to be fixed in our favour as we work day and night and people have expectations from us", said the Vice Chairman. Mir also called for early elections for Block Development Councils. "The government had to hold elections for block councils within three months but one year has lapsed since the village level elections were held and nothing has been done in this regard", he lamented. "The government was talking about 3 tier system and they have failed to even set up the second tier. The government must initiate steps to set up block councils at the earliest or face music", he threatened. "Panchayat Act necessitates the nomination or election of an MLC from among the PRIs but that has not been done till date", he added. Rejecting the perception of threat to the Panches and Sarpanches, Mir said personal rivalry and misadventures of some panchayat members may be behind the recent incidents. |
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