Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 3: Former Minister and senior National Conference leader today said that much hyped Back to Village (B2V) I and B2V II programmes exposed the Government and created an atmosphere of 3 deficits — trust, governance, development and has proved to be futile exercise.
“Whenever Government intends to divert the attention of common people from its failures, it starts B2V programmes and now, B2V III programme has been started,” said Ajay Sadhotra in a press statement, issued here today.
He said the net result of B2V programmes was total disconnection between common people and the Government. “Sweet dreams were shown to the common people by making tall promises especially to basic democratic institutions and promises were never fulfilled till date and it further gave strength to the atmosphere of 3 deficits. B2V programme proved to be as ‘Mungeri Lal Ke Sapne’,” Sadhotra asserted.
He said that B2V programmes were cruel jokes with the innocent common villagers. “The PRIs organized the programmes with great fan fare and with big hopes but the hopes were dashed to the ground. It was wastage of time and Government offices turned non-functional. All the day to day urgent works of common people remained unattended and there was no body to listen to them in offices,” former Minister said.
Nomenclature of the programmes B2V is good but the outcome was big zero. At this time of Medical Emergency, Government instead of putting its full force to fight the Pandemic, is trying to divert the attention of the common people to cover up the Government failures on all fronts especially Health Care.
Sadhotra said it is high time for the Government to take effective steps to instill confidence by further strengthening health care in Medical College Jammu and other Health Institutions.
National Conference leader emphasized the need of taking confidence building measures to remove 3 deficits to create sense of trust, good governance and development. If prevailing situation of 3 deficits and disconnection continues, it will further alienate the common people which is not in the National interest.
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