Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 9: Showing concern that Jammu & Kashmir has assumed a top position among all states and UTs of the country in the dubious field of corruption and internal financial & political subversion connected with non-transparency and non-accountability, BJP leader and incharge of its Department of Political Affairs and Feed Back, Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo today said that the zero tolerance against the corruption is the hall mark of the present Government.
In a statement issued here today, he said present Government is committed to transparency as corruption over the years has ruined the J&K and added to woes of common man.
Chrungoo said that it is gratifying to note that the Lt. Governor and the Chief Secretary of the Union Territory of J&K are on the same page in this context. The statements by both of them on corruption have the potential to lift the morale of the people with honest intent and conduct in the administration.
He regretted that corruption has been institutionalized in J&K for decades together in the form of ‘genuine tradition’ of the system nourished by politicians and bureaucrats. The selection of an IAS candidate from Kashmir this time with highly objectionable background is another dimension of a possible subversion”, he added.
He said 70 years after independence, despite making an expenditure of hundreds of thousands of crores by the successive Governments’, the State is heavily dependent upon the Centre in almost all fields of economic activity. Those among the political dynasties in both Jammu and Kashmir regions have amassed wealth and assets completely disproportionate to their income, capacity and worth. Even the departments created to check corruption were allowed to become the hub of corruption themselves, he added.
Chrungoo said that it was the former Governor, Satyapal Malik himself who disclosed that the politicians of the Valley had invested heavily in national and international markets. He went to the extent to pinpoint a few politicians and bureaucrats who were entrenched in huge corrupt games along with their family members and relatives. Common people in the UT have always felt cheated due to the corrupt practices almost in all Government departments of the UT. The JK Bank and the Works departments are a classic example in this context, he added.
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