‘Responsive system to facilitate movement missing’
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 10: While stressing the need to adopt much needed `effective and responsivle mechanism’ to facilitate movement of stranded people, J&K Pradesh Congress Committee president, GA Mir today projected many avoidable hardships being faced by the people including labourers, students and others.
Talking to a media-persons here today, Mir said the Govt is mis-handling the issue of stranded people including labourers, students and others as a result, the people of have undergone tremendous hardships and are still running from pillar to post to seek permissions. Mir took strong exception to the uncalled for and avoidable hardships being faced by different categories of stranded people due to the mismanagement of the administration at different levels. He alleged that unsympathetic and non-responsive system has added to the woes of the people, stranded at different places.
Mir said all the people barring few, mainly privileged ones, have voluntarily obeyed the lockdown and the advisories of the Govt from time to time. The minor violations are very minimal and sometimes due to the confusion, due to fast changing guidelines of the Govt but those privileged ones who have done major violations, are near the corridors of power.
PCC chief said that the stranded people have little access to the bureaucratic system which does not respond to the repeated requests by them, while the labourers mostly are unable to access the tedious system for permissions, under present circumstances of the situation. The Government should simplify and streamline the system for their easy approach and early permissions. He alleged that the other stranded people in different states and within UT in different divisions and districts, having grave urgencies are not being responded to by the respective designated authorities, despite repeated reminders. The authorities should get it verified and listen to the protests and complaints of the suffering people on media and social media at least.
Mir further said Congress party is fully involved in the relief operations in J&K and entire country and over five lakh people both in UT and elsewhere in the country belonging to J&K have been provided various types of assistance by the party through its chain of activities. He said the party is arranging trains from different parts to send J&K people. Two such trains are leaving Goa today evening and tomorrow. Likewise, Rajasthan and chhatisgarh etc too are doing it but regretted that J&K Govt is not sharing any data and requisite permissions for such people.
He said the students and labourers have lodged protests at the attitude and poor response of the administration and lack of facilities where ever they were brought or accommodated. He made special appeal to facilitate the permission and movement of stranded people from one district to another and one division to another in view of forthcoming festival of shab-e-Qadr and Eid-ul-Fitr.
PCC chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma and PCC general secretary Sawhney also accompanied.
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