Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Aug 18: Expressing grave concern over the collapse of administrative machinery in the State with Secretariat services having drifted to limbo in the wake of Kashmir turmoil, Harshdev Singh Chairman JKNPP and former Minister has proposed the shifting of the Civil Secretariat to the Winter Capital of the State so that official working could be restored in the interests of the common man. He said that Kashmir imbroglio had adversely impacted upon the routine business of the Government with negligible business having been transacted during the last 40 days.
He said that the Secretariat and other Darbar move offices in Kashmir had virtually become defunct with hardly any official work having been executed during the said period. He said that with the raging Kashmir fires showing no signs of regress or getting doused the restoration of office work in Kashmir appeared to be a remote possibility. He suggested that under the prevailing circumstances the only alternative with the Government was to shift the Secretariat and allied offices to Jammu ahead of the schedule so that the people of the State did not suffer further.
Reminding the coalition Government of its grandiloquent promises of good governance and development, Mr. Singh said that it must awaken to the growing public anger, contempt and revulsion against its lack of political will. He said that governance could not be allowed to become hostage to the whims of separatists and anti-nationals who had forced closure of various offices resulting in the paralysis of routine govt. work.
He said that the solution lay not in lock down but in facing ubiquitous challenges and exploring options.
He said that the shutdown of offices and Secretariat was no ordinary or mundane issue as it had destabilized the entire system with common man suffering the most and bearing the brunt of a paralyzed administration. He said that no Government work had been transacted during the last 40 days in the Secretariat literally and figuratively except wholesale whimsical transfer orders issued by some BJP ministers operating from their residences. He said that pendency of thousands of files in various Government departments relating to public issues unraveled the reputation of the said Ministers who had failed to dispose off the said files on the pretext of non functional Secretariat. The Government must wake up to the growing unrest among the general public, employees, traders, unemployed, farmers and the palpable discontent amongst the common masses over the complete administrative inertia and the entire Government machinery having come to a grinding halt he added.
He called for immediate shifting of the Civil Secretariat and its operationalization from Jammu in the ultimate interests of the common man, which would largely help to break the deadlock.
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