Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 18: Despite four advisors having been appointed by the Governor in J&K to look after the work of the administration besides addressing the public issues, the State of affairs appeared extremely pathetic, NPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh said.
Addressing a press conference here today, NPP leader said the Advisors were not only overburdened but had no connect with the general masses whose problems and grievances they were supposed to address. He said that with each Advisor having been assigned the charge of 7 to 8 departments, it was virtually impossible to do justice with even a single department. Alienation had increased in such a situation with bureaucracy, having become all powerful, he maintained.
Singh said the remote and far- flung areas were the worst sufferers of the present rule. He said neither the Advisors had bothered to visit such difficult areas during the past five months and nor had the public of the these areas here any access to these Advisors. “Inaccessibility was the biggest problem for the common masses as they had no approach to the corridors of power, ” NPP leader said adding that weekly schedule should be announced by each Advisor for meeting the people outside the secretariat.
Harsh Dev further pointed out that merely four Advisors could not look after the work of 29 Govt departments whose grants were annually passed by the Legislature. As such, was need to enhance the number of Advisors if the Governor Rule followed by the President, Rule was to continue in the State.
He said local Advisors were required to be appointed as against non-locals who had hardly any knowledge of the working of administrative set up here and the peculiar problems of the State.
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