Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 3: Senior Congress leader Mohinder Bhardwaj has expressed shock at total administrative paralysis in dealing with the problems of the people particularly the farmers despite having been highlighted from time to time.
Addressing a meeting of the prominent persons and Congress workers at Bishnah, Bhardwaj, while referring to the problems being faced by the people said that despite having been repeatedly highlighted by him through various means, the ground situation is pathetic with prevalent poor civic amenities, broken roads and irrigation network, and dismal health and education facilities.
“In the absence of elected representatives and Government, it is the duty of the officers concerned to have taken upon themselves the task of conducting tours to take stock of the situation and accordingly take remedial steps. Unfortunately, the official machinery has become totally inactive,” he said, adding, time has come for the Lt Governor’s administration to wake up fast and address the problems which is their bounden duty.
Specifically pointing to the farmers’ issue he said that the community has been repeatedly hit hard on account of damage to their crops due to vagaries of weather during the past few years. None of the promises made by the administration to provide relief to them in the form of ex-gratia and other forms of aid has been fulfilled till date, he said.
While raising a pitch for holding of assembly elections at the earliest as the bureaucratic system is no alternative to the elected representatives, he said that in the absence of elected representatives and Government people have no listening post and have been left to fend for themselves.
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