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| J&K developing? Now 6th poorly performing State | | Implementation of Centrally Sponsored Schemes | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, July 29: Jammu and Kashmir state's performance vis-à-vis implementation of 65 centrally sponsored developmental schemes under restructured twenty point programme is both dismal and far from satisfaction.
Evaluation report for the year 2011-12 has placed Jammu and Kashmir at no. 6 among poorly performing states of India. Other five poorly performing states include West Bengal (5), Sikkim (4), Arunachal Pradesh (3), Assam (2) and Bihar (1). Yet the state government can boost of good governance since it has progressed by three steps during the financial year 2011-12 and is now at no. 6 among the worst performing states.
The credit for this significant improvement must go to extensive efforts being made by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Chief Secretary Madhav Lal. A comparative look at the state's performance indicates that J&K was at number 7 among worst performing states during 2007-08, slipped to number 6 during the turbulent period of 2008-09. There was further decline and state reached at number 3, only after Bihar and Assam during the year 2009-10 and maintained this position during the next financial year (2010-11).
During the financial year 2011-12, J&K made improvements and is now again placed at no. 6 among the poorly perfact remains that state machinery which is habitual of working at snail's pace has seemingly decided not to hike up the tempo even if it means being penalized by Planning Commission of India over and over again.
Grading has also rebutted official claims of double paced development and infrastructure building. It needs no explanation that NC-Congress coalition government after taking over in January 2009 has been adjudged both incompatible and slipshod in implementing 65 schemes which are extensions of 20 different centrally sponsored programmes meant for overall development of the state. .
Twenty point programme (TPP) was launched by government of India in the year 1975 and restructured in 1982, 1986 and again in 2006. The programme is meant to give a thrust to schemes relating to poverty alleviation, employment generation in rural areas, housing, education, family welfare and health, protection of environment and many other schemes having a bearing on the quality of life, especially in the rural areas.
Programmes and schemes under the TPP-2006 are in harmony with the priorities contained in the millennium development goals (MDGs) of the United Nations and SAARC social charter. Original nomenclature, namely the Twenty Point Programme, which has been in existence for more than three decades and carries the stamp of familiarity among the people and administrative agencies, has been retained.
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