* Designates officers to receive feedback
Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 18: In a first to bring added transparency and accountability into public expenditure, the Government has put all of the 10573 infrastructure projects completed during 2019-20 into public domain for registering public grievances and feedback as well.
There are a significant number of projects completed this year as compared to previous achievements in raising the developmental infrastructure in the UT. Contrary to previous financial year of 2018-19 when 8106 projects were dedicated to the public, this year the number has raised to 10573 despite many challenges faced by the administration on account of Corona pandemic and transition from State to UT.
Also, this innovative practice has been initiated for the first time to put every Government work into public domain so that people participate in ensuring transparency and monitoring of expenditure being incurred under various schemes. The objective behind this measure is to take the first hand appraisal reports from the people so that the public money is saved from going down the drain and is spent as per the needs and aspirations of general public. This is, as per the Government, going to fill the gap between what is projected on papers and what actually transpires on ground.
This novel initiative is also expected to make the administration more responsive and inculcate a kind of responsibility among all the stakeholders from top to grassroots level. It will further sensitise actual beneficiaries to be watchful and take due interest in making every penny spent from Government coffers attain what it is envisioned to achieve originally while envisaging such developmental activities.
The Finance Department has designated Shamim Ahmad Wani, Special Secretary Finance to receive the feedback from public regarding the JKIDFC works. The feedback with respect to UT sector projects can be sent to Tariq Ahmad Khan, Director General Expenditure Division-II. While any grievance regarding the works done under ‘Back to Village’ programme could be sent to Ajay Kumar Sharma, Director Expenditure Division-I.
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