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| Are J&K Ministers, bureaucrats and police officers immune to asset disclosures? | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 10: Although the assets statements of the country's Prime Minister and all the Union Ministers are available for public scrutiny, it seems some of our politicians, senior bureaucrats and police officers believe they have a higher profile and better immunity than the Prime Minister of the country!
Despite repeated directions that they must immediately disclose their assets so that these are made available for public scrutiny and information, many Ministers, senior bureaucrats and top police officers of the State have blatantly been ignoring these directives.
It is the right of the common citizen of the State to know what the assets of our civil servants and Ministers are and therefore these have to be made available through official websites for all to peruse. Some of the top bureaucrats and police officers whose names have been disclosed in response to RTI applications are still avoiding the disclosures.
There is no doubt that both transparency and accountability in public life have taken the worst beating during the last 20 years in Jammu and Kashmir. In the name of disturbed law and order situation many politicians and civil servants have been having a field day inflating their personal assets.
Politicians, bureaucrats and police officers are now known to own shopping malls, prime properties and even hotels at health resorts. In the process of making Jammu and Kashmir the second most corrupt State in the country these unscrupulous bureaucrats, police officers and politicians have actually become business magnates. Some senior police officers are known land brokers and their roles in land mafia businesses are a common knowledge in Srinagar and Jammu.
It is also known widely that civil servants and politicians are using their official position to increase their profits as land brokers, land mafia runners and patrons of those indulging in unlawful business practices.
It is a sad commentary on the effectiveness of the State Government that its civil servants are brushing aside statutory requirements to furnish the details of their assets which is mandatory for every civil servant and politician in power.
Not a single such civil servant has been booked under the provisions of the law for their resistance to disclosures of assets. While the State Vigilance Organization (SVO) has tried to give a semblance of its effectiveness by cracking its whip on the lower rung of State administration, the big sharks are roaming freely and operating under the very nose of the SVO.
It seems the politicians, bureaucrats and police officers in Jammu and Kashmir believe they enjoy some sort of blanket immunity whereby they are not required to disclose their assets. Given the trend, it would not be very late when we can proudly claim to be the most corrupt State in the country. |
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